Selection of My Twitter Favorites, Edition 49

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 (called "tweets") that you find interesting, useful, amusing, or disagreeable. Here is the 49th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top): 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.

1. dreamingspires Twitterwave: the practice of tweeples spontaneously saying Hi! to people being shown twitter. one after the other.. think mexican wave... 1:49 AM Mar 13th from web
2. dreamingspires Urban word of day: Social notworking: The practice of spending time unproductively on social-networking sites when one should be working 1:44 AM Mar 13th from web
3. EdBennett Where are the hospitals? The AHA says there are 5700 hospitals in the US. I've only found 101 here on Twitter. Why? 5:42 PM Mar 12th from Power Twitter
4. janoldenburg It's my baby's 21st birthday today. He's in India and rethinking his life and worldview. I'm proud of him. 2:18 PM Mar 12th from web
5. stephenfry I've thousands of books and will continue buying them till I die. Smell and feel, yes. Maybe. But that was true of horses - lol x 4:10 PM Mar 11th from web
6. stephenfry This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators x 4:07 PM Mar 11th from web
7. shellen Making mistakes, making changes, mistaking changes and changing makes. 12:52 PM Mar 11th from web
8. laikas RT @PhilBaumann: There is no "alternative medicine". It's either medicine or it's not. - "Quote of the Day!" 12:23 PM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
9. dreamingspires tiny business card with max info: lists website that leads to many online connections. 30 secs & I am connected several different ways 11:49 PM Mar 10th from web
10. johnbattelle Full moon. Coyotes going nuts on Mt. Baldy. Spring is coming.... 11:06 PM Mar 9th from TweetDeck
11. Pogue TONIGHT'S MEDITATION (by @alancshaw): I used to work at an orange juice factory, but they canned me because I couldn't concentrate. 9:38 PM Mar 9th from TweetDeck
12. AllergyNotes I use Twitter as a notebook too. Every time I post 6-8 links, a few people unfollow and a few start following = readership adjustment. 8:45 PM Mar 9th from TweetDeck
13. precordialthump Every doctor should have this RSS feed - NEJM Images in Clinical Medicine http://tinyurl.com/ael4p 812:03 PM Mar 9th from TwitterFox
14. NaseemMiller The Miles Davis station on Pandora is fantastic for late-night writing. That, and a cup of coffee. And a piece of chocolate. 11:37 PM Mar 8th from twhirl
15. schroncd I’m really not ready to go to bed yet. My wife and I had an argument this morning, and I still have her car keys up my nose. 10:34 PM Mar 8th from web
    
    

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