Medical device industry giant Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) took time on Twitter today to recognize its 65th anniversary, citing April 29, 1949, as the day when a fateful partnership gave rise to the world’s largest pure-play medical device company.
First impressions can be daunting primarily because they can have a long-lasting influence on a relationship, but what does it mean to make a 1st impression online?
Some of medtech’s biggest companies have made themselves Twitter regulators, but each had to start somewhere. Here are some of the industry’s 1st tweets:
Psychoanalysis of a nation through Twitter: A team from Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School is analyzing words used in tweets by Americans in an attempt to gauge the public mood around the country. They discovered that Twitter users on the West Coast seem to be quite a bit jollier than those on the East Coast. It is not clear whether the data was collected during the summer or winter months and accordingly adjusted, for that surely would affect the readings.