Improving How Your Clinic Communicates with Twitter

Twitter is a growing communication technology that is widely used in the United States and throughout the world. This growth includes the expectation of more than 100 million active users worldwide by the end of 2010.1 Twitter enables individuals to send short messages (up to 140 characters long) to anyone that signs up to follow that particular account holder. These messages can connect people with similar interests via the internet, mobile internet, and short message service (SMS) text messaging. Many people use Twitter as a way to receive information from various sources of interest.