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  ATA Joins Twitter Nation

  Posted by Christopher Fotos 11:27 PM on Feb 16, 2010

  Air Transport Assn. apparently had been quietly testing its new Twitter account, with the first postings I (now) see back around Feb. 2. Now they've sent out notice that it's not o... Read More >>

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  Airline Tweeting

  Posted by Christopher Fotos 8:15 PM on Sep 28, 2009

  Washington Post consumer tech columnist Ron Pegoraro has a thorough look at airlines' Twitter presence in a column filed Sunday. Not too many surprises for those who follow the tre... Read More >>

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  For The Twitter Skeptics Among You

  Posted by Christopher Fotos 11:45 AM on Sep 03, 2009

  Yes, it can consume deceivingly vast amonuts of time if you don't focus on what you're trying to accomplish. Yes, like any human activity lots of it is worthless. But if you know h... Read More >>

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  Simpliflying's Top Tweeters

  Posted by Christopher Fotos 6:14 PM on Aug 31, 2009

  Simpliflying unveiled a list of Top 11 (because why stop at 10)  aviation Tweeters, including very kind words for AvWeek's own Benet Wilson. As Shashank Nigam notes, Benet mai... Read More >>

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  My Favorite Tweet of the Day

  Posted by Christopher Fotos 7:40 PM on Aug 19, 2009

  I've been fooling around with Monitter again, keeping track of airline buzz, and ran across this:I can read twitter, LJ and FB, but my work internet blocks Continental Airlines web... Read More >>

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  Delta And The Soft Sell

  Posted by Christopher Fotos 6:20 PM on Aug 12, 2009

  On Twitter, one Jon Berry found a Delta video travel short about Las Vegas on YouTube, put together by airline employees; Delta tweets back about the collection of around 20 they h... Read More >>

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  One Million And Counting

  Posted by Andrew Compart 10:40 PM on Aug 05, 2009

  JetBlue reached a million followers on its Twitter account today (that's Aug. 5 should you be reading this later) -- and just kept going. As I write this, the count is at 1,004,219... Read More >>

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  Twitter As A Non-Toy

  Posted by Christopher Fotos 3:16 PM on Jul 28, 2009

  JetWhine just tweeted a link to this story by Benny Evangelista in the San Francisco Chronicle about the importance employers are beginning to place on social media. This applies, ... Read More >>

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  Live Tweeting of Boeing Financials Telecon

  Posted by Christopher Fotos 3:20 PM on Jul 22, 2009

  Update: The call is over now, the Tweets preserved forever. Update Deux: All things 787 has a good summary of 787-fix statements from the briefingIf you're Twitter-fluent, and you ... Read More >>

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  Video: Southwest On Its Twitter Experience

  Posted by Christopher Fotos 9:32 PM on Jul 20, 2009

  I can't embed this video, so click on this link to go to Paul Haney's Eye on L.A. Aviation blog for an excellent short interview with Paula Berg, manager of emerging media at South... Read More >>

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