Selection of My Twitter Favorites, Edition 58

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 58th 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. LeoLaporte Forget @oprah - my favorite bakery is now on twitter, and twittering when the bread comes out of the oven. @dellafattoria4:55 PM Apr 18th from web
2. AllergyNotes Twitter is on front pages (as rudimentary as it is) while a much superior platform as FriendFeed languishes barely being noticed... 11:46 AM Apr 18th from web
3. Ethamfarm going outside to be grouchy....its no fun being grouchy inside on such a lovely day! 8:31 AM Apr 18th from web
4. lancearmstrong Getting a taste of the future this am. Weather prevents paper delivery. Reading news online. When will the last paper b thrown in the usa? 8:04 AM Apr 18th from TwitterBerry
5. LeoLaporte Now that Oprah has topped 230,000 legitimate followers in just 24 hours I can go back to being a normal joe with my measly 100,000. 11:20 PM Apr 17th from web
6. Doctor_V Fair warning to medical students and peds residents: If u choose peds gastro as a career, the phones will eat you alive 5:00 PM Apr 17th from TweetDeck
7. laikas RT QuadsZilla - If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors. 1:13 PM Apr 17th from TweetDeck
8. steenbab 8:20 AM CT - One trader's fave pickup line: "Your eyes are the same color as my Porsche." Now you see the kind of guys I work with. 8:21 AM Apr 17th from web
9. KidneyNotes If you have a collection of your kidney stones in a display case, it's reasonable to see a specialist. 7:31 AM Apr 17th from Birdhouse
10. richardquest Morning tweetarama....I know we usually get April Showers....but this morning in London - more like mini monsoon 1:41 AM Apr 17th from web
11. StevenBarley Drinking my fav (behind water) - decaf green tea (part of my antioxidant trifecta and daily regiment - others: dark chocolate, blueberries) 9:04 PM Apr 16th from TweetDeck
12. doctorwes Forgot pager at hospital. Why can't they send a tweet instead? 7:11 PM Apr 16th from txt
13. AllergyNotes Publication of multiple abstracts with minimal value by an author - it is not science "evolution" or "revolution" but a "science pollution"4:39 PM Apr 16th from web
    
14. KidneyNotes Google Scholar/Books is great for jumping into an obscure topic and exploring for an hour or so. Strangely underutilized. 10:43 AM Apr 19th from Birdhouse
    
    

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