Wednesday, April 01, 2009
March was a huge month for wellness on Twitter, with over 100,000 users publishing nearly 130,000 wellness-related tweets. Every day, more and more wellness-minded users are taking advantage of the exciting new service for personal and professional use. View our previous blog post on
how altMD tracks wellness statistics on Twitter.
altMD monitors wellness-related tweets to provide our members with exclusive statistics and trends that show Twitter's increasing importance for wellness professionals to share health information and promote their products and services.
To further promote our members, altMD has been automatically publishing new listings and blog posts on Twitter for the last few months. Whenever one of our members creates a new blog post, it automatically appears on Twitter with a link back to that member's blog. You can see all of the member listings and blogs we have posted to twitter at
Twitter.com/altMD.
Below is a snapshot of the number of tweets by keyword in March 2009.
| Keyword |
# Tweets
March |
# Tweets
February |
| Yoga |
28,563 |
26,180 |
| Massage & Bodywork |
23,320 |
16,110 |
| Meditation |
11,814 |
6,221 |
| Pilates |
9,110 |
5,115 |
| Herbs, Vitamins, Supplements |
7,183 |
3,478 |
| Chiropractic |
6,431 |
3,468 |
| Emotional Freedom Techniques |
4,053 |
2,448 |
| Acupuncture |
3,605 |
2,120 |
| Physical Therapy |
3,510 |
1,768 |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) |
3,374 |
1,908 |
| Reiki |
3,234 |
1,742 |
| Astrology |
2,621 |
1,337 |
| Midwifery |
1,985 |
1,250 |
| Tai Chi Chuan |
1,929 |
1,139 |
| Feng Shui |
1,851 |
1,053 |
| Aromatherapy |
1,751 |
956 |
| Occupational Therapy |
958 |
511 |
| Chakra Balancing |
920 |
503 |
| Reflexology |
885 |
346 |
| Cupping |
685 |
334 |
| Ayurvedic Medicine |
586 |
468 |
| Homeopathy |
561 |
405 |
| Hypnotherapy |
542 |
292 |
| Psychotherapy |
473 |
272 |
| Music Therapy |
401 |
186 |
| Colonic Hydrotherapy/Irrigation |
400 |
219 |
| Herbal Medicine |
370 |
240 |
| Bioidentical Hormone Therapy |
269 |
320 |
| Oxygen Therapy |
228 |
42 |
| Kinesiology |
218 |
112 |
| Ashrams |
200 |
130 |
| Biofeedback |
200 |
108 |
| Acupressure |
199 |
97 |
| Qi Gong |
160 |
142 |
| Alexander Technique |
147 |
102 |
| Hydrotherapy |
136 |
67 |
| Audiology |
123 |
79 |
| Ear Candling |
110 |
26 |
| Energy Medicine |
99 |
81 |
| Rolfing & Structural Integration |
93 |
62 |
| Osteopathy |
89 |
54 |
| Craniosacral Therapy |
79 |
30 |
| Laser Therapy |
70 |
46 |
| Integrative Medicine |
70 |
84 |
| Naturopathy |
62 |
45 |
| Myofascial Release |
62 |
29 |
| Speech Pathology |
53 |
23 |
| Hand Therapy |
44 |
29 |
| Guided Imagery Meditation |
40 |
34 |
| Crystal Healing |
39 |
15 |
| Iridology |
35 |
17 |
| Breathwork |
24 |
20 |
| Moxibustion |
22 |
9 |
| Myotherapy |
7 |
0 |
| Apitherapy |
6 |
1 |
| Flower Therapy |
2 |
2 |
| Rapid Eye Technology (RET) |
0 |
0 |
Below is a snapshot of the number of tweets for the top-100 users in March 2009.