Using Twitter to help you with your diabetes management and connect with others...

I just got an article about Twitter and how it can be used to help you better manage your diabetes published on DiabetesHealthCentral. You can read it here.

An excerpt:
"What if you could sort of instant message with hundreds of people in a collective fashion but without having to use another Instant Messaging program? What if you could make new virtual friends outside of your online acquaintances in social networks? And the biggest one of all: what if you could learn more about ways to better manage your diabetes while you are doing all of the above? Sound too geeky? It is, but it’s one of those geeky pleasures you may want to indulge in.

What I am talking about is Twitter. Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that saw the light of day in early 2006, starting to pick up steam over the following couple of years and starting to reach a critical mass the first quarter of 2008."

If you already have a Twitter account, make sure to follow TuDiabetes on Twitter. Also, you can follow me if you want. :)

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Permalink Reply by Andy Stanton on July 22, 2008 at 7:44am: Feel free to follow me on Twitter; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Denise on July 22, 2008 at 10:17am: well, lets see if this works...you can follow me (I am new to this)

except I can't get the link to work--maybe someone can explain how to do that?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Maureen on July 24, 2008 at 3:22pm: It's a pretty cool application! A caution, though - if you use on your mobile phone with text message updates, you may have extra text charges on your phone bill, depending on your carrier's plan.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jenny on July 24, 2008 at 6:34pm: That's the beauty of Twinkle on an iPhone. No texting fees YAY!

Off to take my very old dogger to the vet. He's 17 1/4 years old and is having trouble getting up and all. To be fair to him, we're thinking it is time. STRESS, but we'll see.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alex Sicre on July 24, 2008 at 3:54pm: Great article Manny. I read it yesterday and tweeted about it. A caution to new twitterers, they are going through some technical difficulties and now might not be the best time to join. I would wait until after 6 pm PST 07.24.08. You can follow me @ www.twitter,com/knightsicre to get you started! or just type "follow knightsicre" in the "what are you doing" space.

I would read the help section to find out all the cool things you can do with twitter as well as all the great apps people have created like desktop widgets, iPhone apps, ways to figure out who you should follow. After awhile you will come to love the "fail whale".

Best of luck and have fun!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jenny on July 24, 2008 at 6:36pm: Will have to 'follow knightsicre' in what am I doing... your link was 'not found'.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jenny on July 24, 2008 at 6:32pm: I use Twitter, and that's how I met Manny & TuDiabetes.

I use the iPhone application 'Twinkle' as well. Sometimes it does feel like I am a cry in the wilderness diabetic-wise, but it is a fun thing to do, posting tweets.... I have a number of good folks following me on Twitter and I follow them too. 1 TuDiabetes member and I are following each other and post 'tweets' now and then.

People of the diabetes persuasion need to be more visible. With Plurk and Twitter/Twinkle, let's do it!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Manny Hernandez on July 24, 2008 at 10:30pm: Anyone know of another Twitter application for the Blackberry, other than Twitterberry? I can't seem to be able to install it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jenny on July 30, 2008 at 5:52pm: Is the 'Twitterific' app available for BB? I'm on an iPhone, so I have 3-4 different apps I used, I like Twinkle and Twitterific the best.

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