Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tweetchat Is Terminal! Dying Victim Of Twitter API Changes
Twitter is changing how data can be accessed, which will more than likely lead to the demise of @tweetchat. :(
— TweetChat (@TweetChat) May 4, 2013
I am not
talking about our Wednesday 9pm EST (8pm CST /6pm PST) HPM tweetchat.
Our live palliative tweetchat conversations are alive and well since the
inaugural
tweetchat in June 2010. We would love to have you join us!
What is in a
state of demise and is going away June 11 2013 is the web service www.tweetchat.com . This is a site that easily allows you to monitor one
subject on Twitter organized around a hashtag.
I have been an avid user of the tweetchat
services when looking for specific hashtags of topics that interest me like
#HPM #geriatrics #MedEd (Medical Education) and #HCSM (Health Care Social Media). Tweetchat is simple to use and interact when
participating in live twitter chats, quickly allowing to favorite messages,
respond, retweet, access links, keeping count of the characters and even automatically
adding the hashtag to your tweet.
Tweetchat
allowed me to find my tribe of fellow palliative care professionals all over
the country and the world. Further
bonding occurred when we live tweet from a national conference like AAHPM. How
great it is to meet fellow twitter #HPM people in real life after meeting first
in tweetchat!
Ok anyways this post is not really about how great #hpm tweetchat is and how to use it, and the wonderful community. You can read that in our previous pallimed post here.
So I was
using tweetchat during the American
geriatrics society meeting #AGS13 on May
3 2013 when suddenly my beloved tweetchat was frozen with the following message:
There are over a hundred healthcare tweetchats, and many more about just anything (wine,
politics, church, etc.) so of course there were several concerned folks asking questions:
@twitter I am among the 100s of 1,000s of #twitter fans distressed by your decision re: #tweetchat @tweetchatplease let us in on why/what
— Wayne McEvilly (@waynemcevilly) May 6, 2013
While nothing replaces the website based simplicity of Tweetchat.com if you are thinking of participating in our Wednesday night weekly chats you can always try HootSuite and Tweetdeck (app based) and a newer site called oneQube has recently sprung up promising to fill the void.
