Scientists have taken the leap into social media with a special Twitter site called Sciencefeed.

Providing a place for real-time discussion among scientists, University World News reports in their article, “US: Twitter for scientists launched online” about this new adventure that has brought the world wide web full circle. The Internet was originally created for research result to be easily shared and now with the use of social media, that is even more a reality. Sciencefeed will be compatible with various social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

Dr Ijad Madisch, founding member and CEO of Sciencefeed says “We hope that it will become a bridge between online scientific networking platforms, scientific databases, and the wider online science world and enable scientists to conduct breakthrough research.”

The SSN Take: Making research results easily shared also makes them easily searchable.

Melody K. Smith, April 29, 2010

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