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Healthcare practice pertaining to nursing is constantly changing as a result of new knowledge, research, government policies and regulatory code of practice; therefore, it is vital that nurses maintain currency with practice guidelines, research and skills. Social media is relatively new and its full potential in terms of educational benefits is yet to be realised. In this editorial we discuss how Twitter and other forms of social media can be used for continuous professional development (CPD) in the nursing profession and explore the different ways that nurses can use Twitter to keep up to date with practice. Twitter is an online social networking service that allows users to send a message known as a tweet using 140 characters to each other or their followers ie those in a person’s network. Unlike Facebook, Twitter has no privacy settings and tweets can be seen by anyone, but you have to be an account holder to be able to …