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.

Keyword	# Tweets March	# Tweets February
chiropractic	848	843
TCManiacs	510	263
GetOccTheraJobs	469	311
ReikiAwakening	252	208
reikifurbabies	221	36
PhyzicalTherapy	193	0
UseEFT	179	0
occupationnal	156	0
triviacompanion	140	112
ReikiTweets	139	0
bodywisdominc	132	8
tuananh1080	121	4
nupurdas1958	114	2
lyndalippin	113	64
gassho	110	71
Healthcarexing	100	0
3034health	99	65
MoneyMakeover2	98	60
linkspinegroup	97	0
eftpraxis	94	95
prosperitygal	93	87
wiseways	91	29
eftmama	89	65
lydsterj2w	88	0
emotionalengine	85	56
eftwithlinda	85	46
AlsoShop	83	0
NaturalHealthEd	80	14
RevAnne1	77	0
typeedc	77	0
goacupuncture	77	109
JanetHilts	75	70
eft4adoption	74	0
SeeLaH	74	39
massagemag	73	46
shona2412	71	5
viesearch	71	0
MiraclesGoddess	70	71
jeanneendo	69	1
ChipEFT	68	56
yoga_peace	68	203
EFTRadio	68	24
yourimpact	66	4
yogitechchick	65	14
twitterbo	65	65
ayurveda	65	7
Aaron111	65	85
openandgreen	63	0
MrLunk	63	6
c4chaos	63	29
yogadork	62	49
julia73	59	13
Tweet_Words	59	0
wellnessforyou	59	4
BarbicanAcu	59	0
lisajohnson	58	28
hereannow	58	0
EFTSejual	58	38
Herb	57	1
ClinSigPro	57	0
Erotic_Services	57	0
vacatures_15	57	72
HolisticSchools	55	18
arkjmv	55	24
barefootamy	54	33
wendycwilliams	54	0
YourRomanceDiva	54	0
EFT_Pat	54	62
presentjoyoga	54	43
jo484bu	53	20
Way2WorkatHome	53	0
poweryoga	53	60
rkforums	52	5
littlefoxy	52	41
altMD	52	64
PsychicFreeway	51	32
typeqaz	51	0
RetiredTeacherD	51	8
astrologyscout	49	0
ColoradoJobs	49	1
SerendipityJane	48	71
FitClubNetwork	48	19
MeditationHelp	48	53
TashaAbudarham	46	12
TheLogistician	46	38
glowstick	46	26
DebbyBruck	46	6
lotuspad	45	48
moviecollector	45	11
MEClinic0434	45	18
illstreet	44	45
joannafaye	44	13
TheCharmQuark	44	34
lorenfogelman	44	38
CosmicMother	43	1
juliesaint	43	32
naturism	43	0