The newly opened Parc is already getting mixed reviews on Twitter. Annie Heckenberger recommends going elsewhere if you're looking for killer escargot:
btw - for those of u wondering, the decor/environment @ parc is a 10. the food is a 3. if u want good brasserie food, stick to perrier.
Twitter, the oft-busted-but-still-fun microblogging platform, is quickly becoming the go-to place for airline news from tech-savvy carriers. Latest example? Southwest Airlines' mysterious tweet about a big announcement coming later today.
Says the LCC:
Twitter followers should know first! Big announcement on www.blogsouthwest.com in about an hour....consider yourselves informed!
The last big Southwest announcement we remember from Twitter was about Monster energy drinks. Here's hoping this one's a bit more interesting!
Virgin America apparently doesn't have enough going on with constant fare sales and giving away trips to space. So the carrier has launched the Virgin America Community--and as you can see, the airline made the announcement via Twitter.
So far it looks like VA is simply soliciting info from fliers; as far as we can tell, you can't yet see what other folks have written in.
Three general conversation topics are listed: Essential Guide To... (tips and recommendations in Virgin-served cities), Notes from the Cabin (wacky tales of in-flight experiences) and Mind of a Traveler (stories from the road). There's even a place to add photos and videos, for you multimedia-crazed citizen journalists. Who knows, maybe the best of the best will end up on RED next to Boing Boing TV and Diggnation.
Southwest Airlines has revamped its corporate blog, Nuts About Southwest, and the airline is burning up the social media sites to promote it. We heard about it via Twitter, which is fast becoming our go-to spot for up-to-the-second travel news.
The new site also prominently features Flickr photos, podcasts and a "video blog" space. At the bottom, you'll find links to SWA's pages on Facebook and Linkedin, proving once again that the PR types at the airline know what the kids like.
News about Southwest still makes up a bulk of the blog content, in the form of both press releases and conversational posts. There's no getting around the fact that this is a marketing effort for the airline, but it's by far the best airline blog around.
OK, so we're totally obsessed with Twitter these days. The best way we've heard it described is as a global watercooler. And who doesn't like gossiping about new routes and poorly dressed passengers with a bunch of other travel junkies?
We've been spending more and more time on the site, chatting with people like Jaunted member CaroPhila, travel troubleshooter Chris Elliott and even the PR peeps from Southwest Airlines.
Wanna get in on the shoptalk? All you've gotta do is follow us.
As if we need to hype Twitter any more than we already do, it's now the tool of choice for getting out of prison in Egypt.
Journalist and grad student James Karl Buck was detained by the Egyptian police along with his translator and friend Mohammed Salah Ahmed Maree. Buck sent out a one-word tweet and soon enough his network of followers contacted his university and the US Embassy. He was sprung a few hours later.
Maree is still being held incommunicado, and Buck has dedicated his personal website to getting him released. The sort-of fortunate tech-happy outcome aside, the saga is a good reminder of why the State Department recommends avoiding public demonstrations in Egypt.
We like hanging out on Twitter, sharing watercooler talk with PR types, other travel junkies and even the couple of airlines that share their news through the microblogging service.
Usually JetBlue or Southwest, two of the airlines we follow, just point us to links on their respective blogs, which is cool. But this tweet from today seems to be the first announcement anywhere of a new beverage coming to Southwest flights. How web 2.0!
Now, we're not sure a confined airplane cabin is the best place for energy drinks, but you gotta hand it to Southwest for knowing how to market stuff to the kids these days.
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