Twitter

Many of your fellow passengers and guests are “twittering” — sending out 140-character bursts of observations, comments and opinion through the microblogging site Twitter — and in the last few weeks, the conversation has become pretty interesting.

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“There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people.” Those words, hastily typed on Janis Krums’ iPhone just after US Airways flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River last month, marked yet another milestone in the microblogging revolution.

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With less than a month to go on a month-long trip, it’s crunch time for Nick Hawkins as he hops on the Trans-Siberian Railway for a solo adventure. But in true 2009 style, the adventure will be tracked by GPS, Twittered, blogged and Facebooked the entire way.

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The National Hurricane Center now has an unofficial account on Twitter with the latest storm updates. It’s a great way to receive the most important hurricane and tropical storm information without having to wade through volumes of forecasts rendered in UPPERCASE or sifting through endless RSS feeds. Follow nhc_noaa. Not on Twitter yet? Here’s how it works.

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