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Tweet Of The Week: Travel Makes You Smarter, So Says Mark Twain
We love Tuesdays. Why, you ask? Because the day brings many travel tips and quips as "Travel Tuesday" on Twitter, and we're going to share our favorite with you. Got an avid travel twitterer we should follow? Let us know.
Traveling is often costly, confusing, frustrating and dangerous, but more often the benefits one reaps from a good trip far outweigh any risks. For this reason, how could we not think ourselves a little smart, in coordinating and appreciating it all? Amanda Drake of Y Partnership, a marketing firm, tweeted today:
Tidbit: 67% of active travelers agree, "I think my IQ is higher than average"
We're surprised only 67% of "active travelers" agreed with that! For reference, let's just take a look at some of the best travel quotes, as rounded up in BraveNewTraveler's The 50 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes:
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Tweet Of The Week: The Return Of Fuel Surcharges?
We love Tuesdays. Why, you ask? Because the day brings many travel tips and quips as "Travel Tuesday" on Twitter, and we're going to share our favorite with you. Got an avid travel twitterer we should follow? Let us know.
Have we been too focused on the rise of holiday travel fees and the continued ridiculousness that are checked baggage fees to see that giant fuel surcharges are back? While it's true that during our compulsive airfare searching, we've noticed higher prices on international flights, the thought that it could be related to fuel sits in cobwebs at the back of our mind.
Thus, we turned to the Twitter of travel royalty, Pauline Frommer, who noticed these added fees for Europe flights, saying:
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Qantas Has Issues And John Mayer Tweets Them
The flying kangaroo, AKA Qantas, has got problems. As if banning beer on some flights wasn't bad enough, the planes and the pilots have been misbehaving too.
Last week, there was the case of the pilots who forgot to put the landing gear down on their way into Sydney, forcing the pilots to abort the landing and go again later. Those pilots have now been suspended although the lack of landing gear is being put down to a "brief communications breakdown" by Qantas.
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The Top Five Twitter Travel Lists Out There Now
Twitter has made it a billion times easier for fans to stalk their favorite celebs, for airlines and brands to track their customers, and now, with the new Twitter Lists feature, it's super simple to follow frequent travelers around the globe. For those of you not yet on Twitter, we advise you not to tune out yet, because one day you will probably have to know about it for one reason or another.
Back to Lists—introduced during these first few days of November, the function is the first big update on Twitter in a long time. It allowed members to gather those they follow into neat and tidy lists based on any identifying characteristic, like mommy bloggers, celebrities, personal friends and—yes—travelers. In the course of these first few days of List generation, we've found ourselves included in over 100 lists and counting, keeping company with some of Twitter's best travel authorities and most frequent flying.
To help you on your List discovery, we've gathered up a few of our favorite travel-centric ones. Lo and behold, our Five Favorite Twitter Travel Lists RIght Now...
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Tweet Of The Week: Yankees Vs. Phillies, Zoo Edition
We love Tuesdays. Why, you ask? Because the day brings many travel tips and quips as "Travel Tuesday" on Twitter, and we're going to share our favorite with you. Got an avid travel twitterer we should follow? Let us know.
As we're sure at least everyone on the east coast of the United States knows, we're in the midst of the World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees. Game six takes place tomorrow night at Yankee Stadium, but we're a little focused on today still, it being #traveltuesday on Twitter and all. But thanks to @FreeFunGuides, whose sole mission is to tweet about anything free, we know what we'll be doing if the Phillies win:
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Tweet Of The Week: Unadulterated Travel Excitement
We love Tuesdays. Why, you ask? Because the day brings many travel tips and quips as "Travel Tuesday" on Twitter, and we're going to share our favorite with you. Got an avid travel twitterer we should follow? Let us know.
Yesterday was perhaps a record for the #traveltuesday hashtag on Twitter, as the announcement of the Southwest $25 sale spread and folks mentally escaped their jobs by discussing travel tips and favorite destinations.
Nonetheless, there was one travel tweet that stood out from the rest, and not because it was rendered in all caps. Instead, we were taken with @MistiEyes' earnest excitement in her tweet:
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Tweet Of The Week: Direct From Brazil's Iguazu Falls
We love Tuesdays. Why, you ask? Because the day brings many travel tips and quips as "Travel Tuesday" on Twitter, and we're going to share our favorite with you. Got an avid travel twitterer we should follow? Let us know.
The announcement of Rio's win of the 2016 Olympics may already be weeks behind us, but the good feelings continue as the tourism focus turns decidedly southern. For this reason, we specifically loved @sambayogi's unique addition to #traveltuesday—a live-tweeted picture of her visit to Brazil's Iguazu Falls:
Iguazu Falls, Brazil took my breath away- worth 14-hr bus ride from Floripa!
For the 14-hour bus ride alone, she deserves "Travel Tweet of the Day," and for those who haven't yet had the fortune to spend some time on Brazilian beaches, "Floripa" is short for the city of Florianopolis. Because of Floripa's exotic oceanside scenery and nightlife, the next few years should see some Olympics-prep refurbishment right along with Rio, so add it to your list.
Related Stories:
· @sambayogi [Twitter]
· Twitter coverage [Jaunted]
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Tweet Of The Week: Props To The Pilots
We love Tuesdays. Why, you ask? Because the day brings many travel tips and quips as "Travel Tuesday" on Twitter, and we're going to share our favorite with you. Got an avid travel twitterer we should follow? Let us know.
Did you catch the Today Show this morning, with the brief interview from "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger? Beyond hearing that his new book ("Highest Duty") is out today, we learned of his exactly what he was thinking as he and co-pilot Jeff Skiles manuevered the safe landing on the Hudson River after the bird strike knocked out both engines. Above all, he was calm and the idea of dying never entered his mind. He described the bird strike as massive, with the Canadian geese like a scene from a Hitchcock movie. It made us feel for pilots who not only have to deal with the occasional bird strike, but also for those who constantly fly into inclement weather.
Twitterer @amywiddowson gives due props to her own pilot who, this morning on United flight 6395 between Calgary and San Francisco, expertly flew through insanely bad weather. She says:
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Lufthansa's 'MySkyStatus' Tweets and Facebooks Your Flight Status For You
Lufthansa is announcing the launch of MySkyStatus, a new web service that lets you send live information about your flight status to your Facebook and Twitter streams. The setup is entirely straightforward - give them your account credentials, type in your flight information, and you're good to go. Regardless of what airline you're flying, the service will send updates like "Jaunted is now flying over Paris, France" to your accounts.
This seems like a neat way to keep friends and family abreast about where you are, plus status updates are supposed to be about your status. If you're over Paris that's what you'd be tweeting if you had cell phone access. So you might as well set up a service to do it for you. The messages even come with a link to a Google Maps mashup that shows your plane's location.
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Jetblue's All-You-Can-Jet Pass Ends Today, But The Tweets Will Last A Lifetime
There were the good times and there were the bad, but most of all, there were the sleep-deprived times; today marks the end of the first-ever All-You-Can-Jet Pass from Jetblue. After today, the mini-population of AYCJers who've been residing in the skies this past month will return to solid ground, and to their own beds, although they may still dream for days that they're sleeping behind a departures board.
There's no doubt that Jetblue's $599 pass was a resounding success, earning them millions of dollars in publicity while they filled seats on flights that would have otherwise gone empty. Wired's Terminal Man was just one of the AYCJers who became a Jetblue ambassador by default, as everyone from NBC to local news stations to Wired readers came to visit him during layovers. We even find ourselves looking forward to reading the tweets of AYCJers, and now have to break our addiction to this, some of the best and most humorous twittering out there.
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Tweet Of The Week: Abu Dhabi On Our Mind
Poor Dubai, you haven't had the best week; what with the announcement about the failure of the multi-billion dollar "The World" deal and news that the skyscraper Burj Dubai would be delayed until December, unable to open this month as planned. All that his news has made us do however, is think more and more about heading over to that nook of the world and seeing what exactly is going on.
Thanks to Twitter though, we don't need to quite yet. We can be perfect armchair tourists thanks to tweets like the above, from Lara Dunston, who is living the United Arab Emirates life currently, but her profile cements her nomadic status: "Perpetual globetrotter (60+countries) travel writer (40+books, 100s stories for world’s best publishers) living out of a suitcase since Jan 06." Her personal travel stories can be found at cool travel guide, and her tweet today made us wish we were on the other side of the world with her:
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Frommer's Range Of Expertise Now Extends To Travel Tweet-Ups
In their quest to remain on top of the travel guidebook world, Frommer's has embraced new media whole-heartedly. Just think: Arthur Frommer has gone from penning Europe On 5 Dollars A Day in 1957 to blogging, twittering and podcasting now, at 80 years of age. In their first major step into Twitterdom, beyond the @FrommersTravel account and more towards forming a community, they'll hold their first "tweet-up" in San Francisco on October 1.
It'll be more an event than a coffee chat, with Frommers.com's Editorial Director David Lytle speaking at the Book Passage at the Ferry Building at 6pm. It sounds like an ideal time for newbies to Twitter to hear from one of their favorite travel brands on how Twitter is "changing the nature of travel and how travelers can use the social media site to plan trips, connect with locals, and find the best travel deals."
Perhaps Art Frommer will stop by to shake his fist at Arizona, or maybe gather fodder for a new post on his blog. In any case, it's sure to be the first of many such events from Frommer's, and a good chance to hear how a print brand is adapting for a less than print-friendly future.
Related Stories:
· Tweet-Up San Franscisco [SFGate]
· @FrommersTravel [Twitter]
· Twitter Coverage [Jaunted]
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