With Elon Musk now having purchased Twitter, the guys devote an episode to Twitter and Comedy and Twitter and Medicine. Asif starts off by asking Ali if there is any positive effects of Twitter on Comedy (0:58); then Asif challenges Ali with the opposite question, namely “has Twitter ruined comedy”? Ali uses the examples of comedians getting canceled (ie Kurt Metzger) and why comedians need to be extra careful on social media. They then discuss how while comedians have to be careful, non-comedians need to be even more careful on social media. Asif then ask Ali about comedians stealing jokes from people on Twitter. Then Ali asks Asif about Twitter and medicine (24:28). Asif starts out with highlighting the good of Twitter and medicine including the ease of access, facilitating collaborations, extending reach and cutting edge information. Asif then asks the question “Would Hippocrates be on twitter”? Ali asks Asif about the credibility of medicine and they discuss how tweets have no conflicts of interest. Asif then discusses how doctors may be tweeting when they should be seeing patients. They then delve into the larger issue of doctors being “unprofessional” on Twitter. Asif talks about the mini-experiment he did asking doctors about whether they get consent beforehand. He then brings up the “medbikini” backlash on Twitter with respect to a vascular surgery article on “professional” behaviour on social media. 

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Show Notes:

• Elon Musk tweets 'Comedy is now legal on Twitter' after takeover, asserts 'bird is freed': https://www.firstpost.com/world/elon-musk-tweets-comedy-is-now-legal-on-twitter-after-takeover-asserts-bird-is-freed-11532591.html
• Twitter courted comedians, then the opposition: https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/30/17621870/comedy-twitter-james-gunn-dan-harmon-jokes
• Is Social Media Ruining Comedy? https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/social-media-ruining-comedy
• Here’s the original ‘Zola’ Twitter thread that told the movie’s true story    : https://nypost.com/2021/03/31/heres-the-zola-twitter-thread-that-told-the-movies-true-story/
• Kurt Metzger controversy continues, but Inside Amy Schumer isn’t canceled: https://www.avclub.com/updated-kurt-metzger-controversy-continues-but-inside-1798251054
• Daily Show's Trevor Noah under fire for Twitter jokes about Jews and women: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/mar/31/trevor-noah-backlash-highlights-jokes-jews-women
• Comedian Amber Ruffin Says 'Cancellations' in Comedy 'Aren't Sticking' Because People 'Move On: https://people.com/tv/amber-ruffin-says-cancellations-in-comedy-arent-sticking-because-people-move-on/
• Seinfeld actor lets fly with racist tirade: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/22/usa.danglaister
• How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html
• Did #MeaslesTruth Create a New Form of Twitter Communication? https://www.symplur.com/blog/measlestruth-create-new-form-twitter-communication/
• Would Hippocrates be on Twitter? https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/213/11/hippocrates-would-be-twitter
• Social Medicine: Twitter in Healthcare: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6025547/#B4-jcm-07-00121
• Financial Conflicts of Interest Among Hematologist-Oncologists on Twitter: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2598091
• Public Concern About Monitoring Twitter Users and Their Conversations to Recruit for Clinical Trials: Survey  https://www.jvascsurg.org/article/S0741-5214(19)32587-X/fulltextStudyhttps://www.jmir.org/2019/10/e15455/
• Virtual colleagues, virtually colleagues—physicians’ use of Twitter: a population-based observational study: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/7/e002988
• A medical journal apologized after an article prompted health professionals to post images of themselves in bikinis: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/25/cnn10/medbikini-backlash-and-apologies-trnd/index.html
• RETRACTED: Prevalence of unprofessional social media content among young vascular surgeons
• Use social media? Memorize these vital 12 words: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/use-social-media-memorize-these-vital-12-words