UM researcher revolutionizing scientific communication, one tweet at a time
Monday, March 18, 2013 - 09:30
in Mathematics & Economics
University of Miami (UM) doctoral student in Environmental Science and Policy, David Shiffman was invited to tweet updates in real-time, at the International Congress of Conservation Biology, New Zealand, 2011. As a result, more than 100,000 twitter users worldwide saw at least one tweet from the conference, and nearly 200 people from more than 40 countries, on six continents shared at least one tweet from the conference—greatly exceeding the number of conference attendees.