by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media, Twitter
The other day I retweeted a post (see below) that went viral. My Twitter Stream usually generates less than 5,000 impressions per day, based on 3-5 tweets and retweets per day. However, this particular retweet generated greater than 100,000 impressions in 51 minutes,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media, Twitter
I’m getting ready to change my pinned tweet (see below). I’ve had it up since January 26, 2020—the week I recognized that CoVid was going to dominate healthcare for at least the entire year. (As an aside, the reason I knew CoVid was going to be huge that early...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media, Social Media Ethics, Twitter, Twitter Ethics
We are all familiar with the saying in vino veritas: In wine, there is truth. Ignorant people become more ignorant after a glass of wine.Means-spirited people become more mean-spirited after a glass of wine.Kind people become kinder after a glass of wine. Does...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Twitter Ethics
Twitter describes the technical differences between muting and blocking well, which I would summarize like this: muting is simply not seeing someone’s tweets (or tweets with specific words, emojis, or hashtags), whereas blocking preventing all interaction with...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Twitter Ethics
The guillotine is a hungry mistress, and will eventually turn on those feeding it. Consider the two leaders of the French Revolution, Georges-Jacques Danton, and Maximilien Robespierre, both of who led the charge against the unjust Ancien Régime, but both of which...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Politics, Social Media, Twitter
Most of what I write and tweet about are superficially boring topics to most people. This is intentional. For example, although I happen to have fairly stable political and ethical opinions, and although I spend quite a lot of intellectual energy and capital...
