Craig Colgan on Twitter, Susan Reynolds, Breast Cancer and Frozen Peas
Craig Colgan writes How Frozen Peas Started A Movement. This is really a story about Twitter, the popular micro-blogging site, and the power of social networking.
Susan Reynolds discovered that using a bag of frozen peas on her breast after a needle biopsy was more comfortable than using a ice pack. She told her friends on Twitter, and launched her cancer focused blog Boobs on Ice.
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… [Susan] included a photo of the bag of frozen peas peeking out from underneath her camisole. She also used that photo as her onscreen identifier, or avatar, on the discussion site Twitter.com.
Inspired by Reynolds’s photo, dozens of people in her Twitter community — and others who had found out about her diagnosis through the Internet — began creating pea-themed photos in a show of sympathy. They posted the images on the photo-sharing site Flickr.com, or used them as their avatars (which, in this case, have come to be known as “peavatars”) on Twitter.
Reynolds said the number of people following and replying to her writings on Twitter has reached about 1,300.
See also MRONTEMP’S blog entry, which provides extra texture on this story.