Robert Lufkin’s Twitter Presence Grows to Over 26,000 Followers as He Provides Key COVID-19 Updates
Robert Lufkin ’s Twitter followers grows past 26,000 as he provides key updates to the COVID-19 situation. Beginning in 2019 he was able to grow his Twitter audience from zero to >22,000 followers in about 180 days. The account at https://twitter.com/robertlufkinmd is described as ‘ Med school professor exploring #COVID19, #artificialintelligence , #genetics , #consciousness , tech, optimal #health , #longevity , quantified self, #DIY , & more ‘. It presently has >2500 tweets and up to one million views a month in traffic. Robert Lufkin has had a lifelong interest in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. During high school in the Boston area, he was fortunate to be able to attend classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]. During that time he also worked at the New England Primate Center affiliated with Harvard University where he helped in the laboratories of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel who studied the mammalian visual system. The