Twitter is becoming a mainstream tool.
With this post, I want to give you some information, tips and advises to better use this tool and who are the Twitter users in the Travel Industry.
Twitter in a nutshell
Twitter is a messaging platform, also referred to as micro-blogging. Information is exchanged between users in the form of messages comprising 140 characters or less. Updates are sent and received via web, SMS or third party applications like Twhirl. The basic idea is you choose who’s updates you want to follow, and others choose to follow your updates. Updates are fed into your feed where you can see what the people you follow are doing. Conversely, your updates are sent to your followers feeds.
Twitter is a community
It’s a community of people who are passionate. Many are bloggers, all are influential communicators to some degree or another. Twitter enables word of mouth to spread at lighting speed. It’s a community of people who, if you SPAM them, will at best ignore you, at worst completely slam you.
My 10 tips about Twitter
- Reserve your name and brand name on Twitter (now, it’s like the DNS game)
- Use a twitter client, I suggest http://www.twhirl.org/
- Joint the T-List and the Travel Twitterati (all info with this post on UpTake blog)
- Monitor your compagny brand on Twitter : I suggest to use Tweet Scan
- Keep in touch with bloggers / media
- Promote blog articles, webinars, interesting news and more
- Use live updates on events or conferences
- announce specials, deals or sales
- Make friends
- Put your Twitter feeds on your blog
Some Travel and tourism Twitter users
Carnival Cruise Lines http://twitter.com/CarnivalCruise
Delta http://twitter.com/deltaairlines
Jetblue http://twitter.com/JetBlue
Southwest Airlines http://twitter.com/SouthwestAir
Mahalo Travel http://twitter.com/mahalotravel
- atrapalo.com
- British Airways
- buscadestinos
- despegar.com
- Destinia
- Dreamito
- eurobookings.com
- EscapadaRural
- Horizonte24
- Hostel Colonial
- hotelbb
- hotelchatter
- TerminalA.com
- Reservia.es
- Hotelius hoteles
- Muchoviaje Viajes
- myTVTrip
- minube
- nvivo
- Premium Rentals
- preparatuviaje.com
- theringhotel
- trivop
- Viajes Privados
Some media Cies on Twitter
Reuters http://twitter.com/reuters
CNN http://twitter.com/cnnbrk
BBC (Off-site List) http://twitter.com/bbc
NY Times http://twitter.com/nytimes
WHP (CBS-affiliate) http://twitter.com/whptv
Wired News http://twitter.com/wired
NPR http://twitter.com/nprnews
ZDNet http://twitter.com/zdnett
Conde Nast Portfolio http://twitter.com/Portfolio
CNET News http://twitter.com/CNETNews
Revision3 http://twitter.com/revision3
Times OnLine http://twitter.com/TimesWorldNews
CBC News http://twitter.com/cbcnews
Orlando Sentinel http://twitter.com/orlandosentinel
ESPN http://twitter.com/espn
MTV Music Video Awards http://twitter.com/vma
BlipTV http://twitter.com/bliptv
Others ressources
Forrester http://twitter.com/forrester
Deacons http://twitter.com/Deacons
PerkettPR http://twitter.com/PerkettPR
Q1Labs http://twitter.com/Q1Labs
Eleven Marketing http://twitter.com/elevenmarketing
AdaptivePath http://twitter.com/AdaptivePath
H&R Block http://twitter.com/hrblock
Some leading blogs
Techmeme http://twitter.com/Techmeme
Mashable http://twitter.com/mashable
Engadget http://twitter.com/engadget
Technorati http://twitter.com/technorati
SocialText http://twitter.com/socialtext
Feel free to leave a comment with your Twitter contact.
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Good tips, Claude, I am adding a few of them to my follow list. Look forward to seeing you at PhocusWright.
Excellent Post, thanx for sharing the same.. Will keep on reading the post
Stumbled your post .. cheers
It’s going great to be info resource to the ppl. about this..
Albertina
I like @resideo — they’re an OTA, and they regularly post news & info on hotels (renovation notices, deals & discounts, etc.), as well as keep an eye out for folks looking for help in finding/booking a hotel.
@hotelexperience is a good one as well — fresh perspective from a hotel manager.
Rob,
I like the way you make your marketing
Auteur : Rob (IP : 75.150.26.179 , ganymede.resideo.com)
Change your IP next time
Claude
I know it sounds far-fetched, but we found that comment on another blog, copy/pasted the text so it could be included in our own blog — but, I meant to instead copy/paste text I had written up previously that should have been our comment here But, as you can see, I got it all mixed up.
Thanks for providing information and prices of different variety of Cruise. I need this info because i am using online shopping services.
Thanks
Hi Claude
Many of the twitter accounts you mentioned have a weird urls that lead us directly to the admin page of the self host worpdress account of megustaelturismo… (from atrapalo to mytvtrip).
By the way, here is BlogOnTravel.com’s twitter account:
http://www.twitter.com/blogontravel
Feel free to send me a msg using @blogontravel I’ll reply every single msg.
PS: There are many more travel companies present on twitter. Look at my followers on twitter…
Bye for now.
Hello Claude,
I’ve just RT your article, but I don’t know your twitter account so I couldn’t @mention you!
Thanks and visit our site http://www.twavel.com we are based on Twitter!!!
Alfonso
Hi Rob,
Good article, very helpful thanks
I found it from the RT by twavel above.
If you want to add us at all to any travel lists we are @holiday_holiday and http://www.holidayholiday.co.uk or http://www.holidayholidayblog.co.uk
We are a travel website which advertises holiday offers from hundreds of UK travel agents.
Thanks
Emma
Would have helped if I’d got your name right CLAUDE!! – oops very sorry
was reading the post from Rob at the time!!!!
this is a nice tip on how to maximize twitter for your blogs or website. thanks so much for the help.