By Britta Barrett | Posted March 17 2010
Have you heard of the Health Tweeder?
It’s an aggregator of Twitter content relating to various diseases and medical conditions. Created by Pixels & Pills, it uses Petri dishes—visually and metaphorically—to capture and convey dialogue on a number of ailments.
In short, each Petri dish represents an illness (e.g. sleeping disorders or diabetes), and each cell within a dish represents a tweet. Clicking on a Petri dish offers a look at what’s being said about that particular condition.
The most tweeted topics are color-coded so you can see what’s popular. When I was on the site the other day, “psychiatry” was leading, with 280 tweets. A particularly interesting tweet led to a study on colors and feelings, where doctors used color to gauge the moods of patients with verbal challenges.
Health Tweeder is a nice snapshot of real-time discussions in the world of health. It turns hashtags and key issues into groupings that are easy to navigate and peruse, making it the sort of experience that fosters new learning and encourages conversation. So…dig in.
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