Many researchers and scientific/communication resources are using Twitter to provide current information to their colleagues, friends and the Internet.

It's a great way to keep up with breaking news in a situation such as a developing flu epidemic where new is being released from a variety of sources.

What is twitter? Click here to join.

From Wikipedia: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website or external applications (these offer more features, most are free).

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You can follow individuals or topics (hashtags).

Some “people” you might be interested in following:

• ICAV
• swineflucast
• CDCemergency
• PHAC-GC
• swine_flu
• pandemicwatch
• profvrr
• viralnerd
• trackH1N1
• SwineFluTicker
• peterosbornuk
• Veratect
• swineflucases
• H1N1Info
• CDCflu

Some hashtags to follow:

• #swineflu
• #H1N1
• #swine_flu
• #flu
• #influenza
• #virus