Live Tweet The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting: How to Leverage Twitter to Maximize Your Conference Experience

Brave New World: Virtual conferencing and surgical education in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 era

“… Social media and data analytics: The AATS virtual meeting had more than 3000 tweets and more than 10 million impressions in just 2 days, highlighting the growing role of social media discussions and connectivity complementing conferences. 17 These features can be further integrated in conference platforms but illustrate the more personal, instantaneous, and global discussions taking place to a larger than ever extent. Additionally, online gatherings enable instant assessment of the number of participants, demographics, and participant engagement in various sessions.…”

Hashtag Global Surgery: The Role of Social Media in Advancing the Field of Global Surgery

“…it also allows for all positions to be represented. Furthermore, social media is emerging as a form of peer review for experts to call out and correct inaccurate information that may be posted publicly [12].…”

“…Today, there are 2.62 billion social media users, including 2.23 billion Facebook users, 330 million Twitter users, and 260 million LinkedIn accounts, leaving the potential reach beyond imagination [4]. Currently, social media is widely used in healthcare for conference tweeting, journal clubs, coordination of research collaborative groups, dissemination of new research from peer-reviewed journals, medical education, and social and medicopolitical campaigns, among other pursuits [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. It allows for real-time dialogue and collaboration across the world on any topic at each individual's convenience in an asynchronous matter.…”

Live-Tweet to get the most out of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Virtual Annual Meeting

“… 3 , 4 Twitter has been shown previously to enhance communication and information dissemination at conferences via “tweeting the meeting.” Live-tweeting a conference allows for real-time international discussions surrounding the scholarly activity presented and broadens the discussion venue by engaging both attendees and nonattendees of meetings, both synchronously and asynchronously. 5 …”

“…A step-by-step primer on how to live-tweet a conference has been previously published by our group. 5 Key handles and hashtags for live-tweeting the 100th AATS Annual Meeting are provided ( Table 1 ). If you have any questions, please reach out to any member of the TSSMN team.…”