by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter
As of the morning of January 7th, the attached @CDCFlu tweet had only been retweeted 116 times, and, by my count, only 16 retweets were done by healthcare organizations, mostly small and local. the rest of the retweets were done by individuals. So far this year, per...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Ikigai, Politics, Twitter
Should physicians tweet about politics? Usually, my answer is no. If you’re ikigai – your mission – is to help out individual patients, then it can only hurt you. For example, if you are a cardiovascular surgeon, whose principal mission is to care so...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Social Media, Twitter
Owly is the Hootsuite mascot; a simple piece of swag. But at the last social media conference I went to (Social Media Camp in Victoria BC, one of Canada’s largest social media conferences), it actually appears to be a little more. You see, at the conference,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Twitter
How good is Artificial Intelligence at Analyzing Personality via Twitter? Well, let’s see home well IBM does using Watson’s free Personality Insights tool. Here’s my AI-enabled personality analysis after analyzing 29,929 words ( about 1/2 of a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Twitter Ethics, Uncategorized
We all know that tweets with photographs and videos have higher engagement than stand alone tweets. Some say up to 1200% more engagement. We also all know that tweets with humor get more engagement. Finally, and sadly, we also knowt highly negative tweets –...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media, Twitter
Lots of things to learn from the Tony Robbins – #MeToo Movement, but I’d like to focus on the idea around hashtag-based “Movements” both as a social technology which uses digital technology, vs. the hashtag digital technology itself. Consider the...
