Have you ever Twittered?

[AlicesLoft]

Hi Kevin checked out your blog site and its very good ,love the photos.You can follow our activities on ,http://alicesloftandcottages.wordpress.com/.

Hope you are coming over for our Bog Snorkelling.

[kierans]

Hi,
I have been using Twitter for about 6 months and have found it very useful for making contacts and updating my knowledge. What do you think are the benefits of Twitter? Can you attribute enquiries/bookings to your Twitter profile? Do you know of tourism businesses that are effectively using Twitter to sell rooms or products?

What do you think?
Kieran

[orson.octavius]

The problem is if one of those you are following are microblogging every single minute of their life and you receive an avalanche of text messages from that person. Your text messaging bill could shoot up

[Hotelsinone]

Hi,

I think using twitter is a great tool for getting information out to your followers, just a word of warning to be careful in what exactly you tweet, for you never know who will retweet it and where it might lead. It is probably best that one person in the business looks after the twitter account....remember when you tweet it is on the net straight away!

[Calli]

Another vote for Twitter here! Its a great way of letting your followers know what is happening. Also Twitpics are a great way of sharing images instantly. Love the concept of sending from my mobile straight to the stream!!

[mmatchev]

It definitely helps. I'm pretty active there.
Last year I got 2 bookings from twitter for my Italy villa.
2 bookings are not much bit to tweet doesn't costs me anything and I enjoy it.
So, yes - I recommend it.

[DaisyCottageDonegal]

i love twitter. took ages to join coz i thought it wasn't for me but now i have, it's great.

it hasn't yielded any bookings thus far (though i would like to think that if one of those following me were coming to donegal, they would consider coming to daisy cottage mainly because they 'know' me through tweeting with me).

but i didn't join simply to try and get bookings. i joined actually because someone kept nagging me to join because they enjoyed it so much and knew i would too when i got on to it. and you do learn a lot. you interact with people from many countries and all walks of life and hear about their country and life and you in turn maybe interest people in our country.

i would advise anyone thinking of joining just to get business, certainly for those in the holiday industry, to forget it. i, and i'm sure many millions more, hate someone/some company who just tweets about their company and offers. why on earth would that interest anyone. you need to interact with people and not just use the exposure to benefit yourself.

join it, it's fun and interesting (and addictive!).