Twitter Surgery Details

On Thursday, April 16, at 8 a.m.(CDT), Aurora Health Care became the first hospital system in Wisconsin to provide live updates of an exclusive bi-lateral knee replacement surgery on the Internet, using the popular social-networking site, Twitter.

Twitter is a social-networking site that allows its users to post brief messages. These messages (called "tweets") are a maximum of 140 characters in length, displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users (known as followers) who have subscribed to them.

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Event Details

Twitter Stream and Photos

• Twitter Stream
• Surgery Photos

Media Links

• ABC News
• WISN Milwaukee
• WUWM Radio

How do I sign up?

• Visit Twitter.com
• Click on the green box that says "Get started ? Join"
• Follow the prompts to set up your profile page

How do I follow Aurora on Twitter?

• Go to Aurora Health Care's home page on Twitter and log in
• Click on the "Join today" green button

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Once the surgery starts, tweeting updates, including photos, will occur each time the surgeons do something significant during the process.

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