Tweet, Tweet. I’m at 30,000 Feet.
While I won’t knock my officemates for their newfound Foursquare obsession (ahem…), I will say that the hourly location updates from your pub crawl do give my occasional Saturday night couch pizza a slightly bitter aftertaste. Womp womp.
This week I came across a new form of Internet over-share that may prove a bit more useful. Lufthansa just launched a new tool that allows users to have their location updates posted to Facebook or Twitter… from the air. Yup, even planes are tweeting these days.
Go to the MySkyStatus application and enter your flight info and they’ll send altitude, location, departure and arrival updates to your Facebook and/or Twitter page automatically. It’s a valuable tool for friends and family members picking passengers up at the airport. And for those of us craving a little more overshare, you’ll love that your friends can know exactly where you are on the map (literally):
CourtneyMarieC is now flying over Karmana, Uzbekistan on SWISS http://myskystatus.com/map/view/LX/4300/5 Powered by http://myskystatus.com/
The service isn’t limited to Lufthansa passengers- because the airline puts their brand stamp on each update, they’ve opened MySkyStatus up to travelers on all airlines and are able to offer the service for free. Unfortunately, while Lufthansa can tweet on behalf of other carriers, they still can’t help them fly.
Tags: Twitter Lufthansa Facebook flight
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October 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Love this concept & love this post.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
solid stuff. virgin has am IM chat that u can do with other ppl on the plane, but its not heavily used. ther eis definetly some social flying tool that can be unlocked by the right airline…twitter trivia at 30k feet?