Fred, I have seen some clever uses of Twitter including some for healthcare. To me it still seems that Twitter is best suited for broadcasts. If you do not gain any benefit by broadcasting, other means of transmitting your messages might be more appropriate, which may not constrain your messages to be ultra-short, in some cryptic syntax.
The approach you propose might be more useful for SMS based systems instead. I wonder if there are any examples of Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) based systems using SMS to facilitate interoperability. The Gates Foundation Challenge: Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions <http://www.grandchallenges.org/MeasureHealthStatus/Topics/CellPhoneApps/Pages/Round6.aspx> seems like an interesting opportunity for such an approach. Regards, Hemant *Hemant Shah M.D., M. Surg.* Senior Research Informatician *Henry Ford Health System* <http://henryford.com/>1 Ford Place <http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1+Ford+Place%2CDetroit%2CMI+48202%2CUnited+States&hl=en>Detroit, MI 48202 United States Call me on Google Voice! <http://proteme.org/googlevoice.html> *LinkedIn Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/proteme> Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>* *Websites: Proteus <http://proteme.org/> Proteus Open Source Project <http://kenai.com/projects/pip/>* On 8/19/2010 11:01 AM, fred trotter wrote: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3482315/tweet-meta-syntax-for-odls > > -- > Fred Trotter > http://www.fredtrotter.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
