en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/875705 Comments by philbaumann http://www.healthcarecommunication.com/Main/Articles/6810.aspx#IDComment154162047 There's also #MDchat, #RNchat and #FamMedChat They've been around for a long time. In fact #MDchat and #RNchat were the first clinical Twitter chats. Big ones to miss ;) Thu, 19 May 2011 23:55:19 +0000 http://www.healthcarecommunication.com/Main/Articles/6810.aspx#IDComment154162047 http://willfrancis.com/post/888522221#IDComment90212926 Tried it myself and my All Friends column is wild (reminds me of Friendfeed's stream before Facebook purchased it. But I think we need to distinguish between Real-time and Instant. In the true sense of the phrase, Real-time media are media that deliver the right information at the right time in the right context. Twitter, Facebook status updates, etc. aren't true Real-time media. They're actually Instant media (save for the appearance of the Fail Whale). On one hand, I think there's value in Instant streaming - as you described above. But on the other, I think we'll get a point when we'll more strongly demand true Real-time software. When we use clients like Tweetdeck and set up columns, what we're trying to do is to get closer to Real-time. So I think Twitter isn't totally the future yet. But it's a pretty fun approximation. @PhilBaumann Sun, 1 Aug 2010 22:36:17 +0000 http://willfrancis.com/post/888522221#IDComment90212926