Comments on: Twittering Your Travels Away

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:16:06 +0000

To put it bluntly… if I did not jump on the Twitter bandwagon I would be 60% less prepared for our r-t-w trip. It has been an amazing tool to network with other travel bloggers and backpackers in general. I do lose track of time when I jump on for what I thought would be 15 minutes to read a few tweets and wind up immersed in several different blogs. I am curious to see how we will use it during our travels when we don’t have mobile phones and constant access to internet. Twitter withdrawal is definitely on the horizon.

By: The Global Traveller

The Global Traveller — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:06:20 +0000

I’m also fairly new to twitter – I joined 6 months ago.

Twitter is a great source of travel tips & advice, so many sharing people. I’ve also met people on twitter both in my home town and on the road. Because twitter enables more personal connections with writers and bloggers, I’m finding I’m using twitter partly as a filter mechanism – there is too much travel stuff online to keep up with it all. Twitter helps me prioritise.

By: Antalya

Antalya — Sat, 23 May 2009 08:50:51 +0000

Great article for travellers , thank Matt

By: NomadicMatt

NomadicMatt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:51:12 +0000

@worldnomads: I really do like how many travel companies (like WM) are on twitter. It’s good to make some contacts and see the people behind the brand.

@kalyan: twitter is very very addictive.

By: Kalyan

Kalyan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:06:44 +0000

I joined twitter recently and found it addictive – but interesting. I’ve one point to add to your post. Twitterrers give away a lot of links which you may find interesting. While stumbleupon or digg are democratic, twitter isn’t . And probably that’s why I find these links more readable/useful than others.

Lovely post Matt.

By: @WorldNomads

@WorldNomads — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:28:05 +0000

Great article Matt, totally agree that it’s been an amazing way to connect to peers and has opened dialogue with people I wouldn’t have meet through other channels.

The ability of fellow tweeps to inject such personality into 140 characters has really surprised me as well, I’ve had some of the biggest belly laughs off twitter.

I’ve also changed my perception of brands by tweets alone, ‘popping the lid on the people’ behind companies has been a smart move by many of the bigger travel companies.

By: NomadicMatt

NomadicMatt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:28:56 +0000

Because of this article, i found a lot of people on twitter! I heart twitter!

@theresa: get with the program!

By: Mark H

Mark H — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:32:09 +0000

I’m a late user but it is infectious watching all these strange conversation pass your eyes and being able to add your few thoughts now and then. Amazing what people write about (in 140 chars).

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:53:32 +0000

I’ve been a Twitter fan from day one. I love it. It has opened up my world. Great article, Matt.

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:49:24 +0000

I was late getting into Twitter too, but loved it immediately. It is so great for direct, to the point information. Traveling and working from home it really gives you the feel of office mates too. A sounding board so you don’t feel like you are always talking to your self. Ha, ha!

I follow you and saw your Tweet a while back about Gisele getting married. You need to come down to the coast of Brazil. Giseles are everywhere. http://twitter.com/lori1329