Twitter app shows who else is at the airport

Twitter and Airports have something in common—they help create a more connected community.  Airports can be a lonely place while waiting for a flight…A new Twitter app aims to remedy this issue.   All a traveler needs to do is tweet #boarding along with an airport code (i.e. PHX), and they’ll get a reply with a list of folks currently connected to Twitter in that airport.

Web developer Damien Guinet created the @boarding ‘twitterbot’ when he realised many of his followers would tweet just to say they were in an airport. He decided to add value to this by letting them find out who else was there.  Boarding.fr  displays a map of all the world’s airports and the users in them. Users can choose which random stranger they’d like to tweet and maybe meet while in transit.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 8:38 pm and is filed under Interactive/Web INFO, Interactive/Web TOOLS.