If you travel and don’t “twitter” you’re missing out.
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.
What’s Twitter? Watch this.
Here are some advanced tips that might be useful.
Let’s listen in on the chatter:
• This morning’s crash of a Turkish jet in Amsterdam was apparently not first reported by CNN, but by Twitter user @nipp. The last tweet reports “confirmed 9 deaths and over 50 wounded.”
• Reacting to US Airways’ decision to stop charging for drinks, @clickr quipped, “Whoopee doo. US Airways emailed they’re going to offer FREE drinks again – but you still get to pay for checked luggage & choice seats.”
• The recent Disney layoffs prompted this comment from @Fortefemme: “You know it’s bad when it affects Mickey Mouse.”
• Ryanair’s decision to replace check-in agents with kiosks, and an unpleasant dust-up with a blogger, prompted the following quip from @TelegraphMG: “You’d have to be an idiot to fly Ryanair… they even say so themselves: I flew Ryanair recently. It was hell.”
Twitter is fun, engaging, and often enlightening. But it can also suck up a lot of your time — so be warned.
You can follow me at @elliottdotorg or check out some of the tweeple I follow.
See you in the Twitterverse.
