RIP #medtwitter? What Twitter’s potential collapse could mean for doctors

Many people have been saying their farewells to mutual followers on Twitter in the past few weeks since the South African entrepreneur Elon Musk bought the social network for $44bn. Musk has taken the platform in a very different direction from what went before, both in terms of the types of content accepted on the platform (Musk is a “free speech maximalist”) and behind the scenes, where he has shed more than half the site’s staff in a month.Those concerns have been amplified in the past week, as problems with the platform’s reliability start to raise their head. Twitter users—including those on the vibrant community of medics who gather under the umbrella #medtwitter—have started to worry.“Doctors have been on Twitter for a long time,” says Rohin Francis, a cardiologist who is a member of #medtwitter. “But it feels like it’s really kind of developed into an important community in the…
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