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The screen time app on my iPhone tells me that I spend over ten hours a week on Twitter. And I'm not alone. As Netflix's The Social Dilemma illustrated, social media platforms are designed to keep us scrolling for hours, even if we only opened the app for a second. Thousands of UK healthcare workers use Twitter every day, discussing everything from cutting edge COVID treatments to staff room fridge etiquette. As strange as it sounds, this esoteric little corner of the internet - affectionately if unoriginally nicknamed "MedTwitter" - has become a thriving online community.
我iPhone上的屏幕时间应用程序告诉我,我每周花在Twitter上的时间超过10个小时。我并不孤单。正如Netflix的《社交困境》(The Social Dilemma)所展示的那样,社交媒体平台的设计目的是让我们持续滚动几个小时,即使我们只打开了一秒钟应用程序。成千上万的英国医护人员每天使用推特,讨论从最新的COVID治疗到员工室冰箱礼仪等各种问题。尽管这听起来很奇怪,但这个互联网的小角落——被亲切地称为“MedTwitter”——已经成为一个蓬勃发展的在线社区。
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