Selection of My Twitter Favorites, Edition 24

Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question "What are you doing?" via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages you find useful, amusing, or both. Here is the 24th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top):

	scanman I've wasted 207,270 Seconds or 3,455 Minutes or 57.58 Hours or 2.4 Days with 6,909 Tweets on Twitter! http://tweetwasters.com 12:28 PM Dec 13th from mobile web
	AllergyNotes What's the definite key to a medical blog success? CCO = Commitment, consistency and openness. http://tinyurl.com/6yyrgs 9:22 PM Dec 12th from TweetDeck
	AllergyNotes Yes, you can: An Twitter interview in 140 characters (or less) about The Future of Medicine http://tinyurl.com/5dg8u7 9:20 PM Dec 12th from TweetDeck
	AllergyNotes You will never feel the same about eating bacon after you see this picture: http://tinyurl.com/6oe2xy 9:17 PM Dec 12th from TweetDeck
	AllergyNotes Good to know when to give up: Coconut Breaking Fail http://tinyurl.com/55q9v3 9:14 PM Dec 12th from TweetDeck
	wheezemd Back in Memphis-delayed 6 hours as the original pilot got a spider bite and they had to fly another pilot to Nashville for our flight 3:06 PM Dec 12th from web
	doczak Show me a doctor whose wife is happy, and I'll show you a man who's neglecting his practice! 2:23 PM Dec 12th from web
	Berci Recently, I've realized I cannot deal with the amount of information of 600 Twitterers so I've been living on filter services for days. 1:36 PM Dec 12th from TweetDeck
	KidneyNotes The new Gmail SMS feature is great for communicating with front desk staff. (Mine all text message.) 10:16 AM Dec 12th from TwitterBar
	gruntdoc Zimbabwe introduces $500 million note - CNN.com: Zimbabwe introduces $500 million note - CNN.com That must sound.. http://tinyurl.com/5ld75s 8:01 AM Dec 12th from twitterfeed
	Scobleizer @fredwilson It was fun meeting Fred for the first time at LeWeb. We looked at each other and had nothing to say because we read each other. 7:30 AM Dec 12th from FriendFeed in reply to fredwilson
	johnbattelle Sometime this weekend Twitter will hit 5000 mark for me. I am honored to be seen as worthy by this many in so short a time. Thanks. 6:59 AM Dec 12th from web
	johnbattelle My Facebook page has become way more interesting since my tweets became my Fbook updates. Lots of comments from FB pals 6:58 AM Dec 12th from web
	AllergyNotes Are you wasting your life online? http://ivor-kovic.com/blog/... 10:32 PM Dec 11th from web
	AllergyNotes 3 reasons a doctor’s job can never be automated: false positives, false negatives, incidental findings http://tinyurl.com/6445hb 11:45 AM Dec 11th from web
	sciencebase @AllergyNotes You can backup selectively with www.tweetake.com, seems to work well. 10:47 AM Dec 11th from web in reply to AllergyNotes
	AllergyNotes My 3,000 tweets made a 262-page Microsoft Word document. Ran the whole text through Wordle.net to look for patterns. Will publish the graph. 10:45 AM Dec 11th from web
	AllergyNotes Managed to backup my Twitter account with 3,000 tweets manually. Went to page 153 and worked back from there. Pasted in G Docs (7 files), 10:43 AM Dec 11th from web
	lancearmstrong http://twitpic.com/rnbo - A guy asked me to sign this book. I asked if his dog chewed it. Answer: "no, that's from shrapnel when I got b ... 8:55 AM Dec 10th from TwitPic

Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be very useful and educational if you follow/subscribe to interesting people.

You can read more here: A Doctor's Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter and
visit my account at Twitter/AllergyNotes.