"Last week, for the second known time, surgeons Twittered a surgery by using social-networking site Twitter to give short real-time updates about the procedure," reports CNN.com from Detroit, Michigan.
Dr. Craig Rogers, the lead surgeon in the Henry Ford surgery, said the impetus for his Twittering was to let people know that a tumor can be removed without taking the entire kidney.
"We're trying to use this as a way to get the word out," Rogers said.
It quite takes me back to the early days of the web, and then the early days of MySpace, Facebook and Second Life. You could get news sites interested if you were the first (or second) to do something novel on the service: the first pizza ordered on the web, the first board meeting on Second Life, or whatever. We've already had the first Twitter user in a plane crash, the first birth, the first celebrity stuck in a lift, and so on, but I'm sure there are plenty of opportunities still to be exploited.
Is this your chance to be famous for 15 minutes? What could you be first to do on Twitter?
