Twitter can help plan your holiday

It’s more immediate than blogging, less frivolous than Facebook, more social than SMS or instant messaging – and suddenly it’s everywhere. Sometimes known as micro-blogging, Twitter is simple: write what you like in up to 140-character chunks, then send it to everyone in your network.

But it is far more than simply an outlet for those with a dubious compulsion to share. Twitter has already broken major news stories, for example. Indians caught up in November’s Mumbai attacks tweeted (that’s the verb) well ahead of news media.

Now it’s being taken up by business, and travel is in the vanguard.

Read the rest at Telegraph.co.uk.

Then ‘How to set up your Twitter account‘.

And if you’re interested in travel, try my recommended ‘50 great travel tweeters‘.

(Also ran in print in the Sunday Telegraph, 22 February.)