When you plan for a travel, you will pick up your telephone and contact any familiar travel agencies to get further details. This was the case among travelers before the arrival of the internet. Once the internet has started occupying the life of people, they simply sat before a computer to get the details on travel spots from various travel companies. The technology doesn’t end here; it takes them to a new extent through social networking sites where they can interact with all the other people interested in travel and get more tips apart from chatting with travel companies to discuss on special offer.
As people can get reply from concerned person through networking sites without waiting in a queue or time delay, many people have turned towards travel companies that support social networking sites. Most companies have started paying close attention to social networks. This is very clear from the recent study which states that JetBlue leads the pack on Twitter with 700,000 followers while Southwest Airlines and Virgin Atlantic have nearly 70,000 and 20,000 fans on their Facebook page.
A lot of success stories on the latest social media revolution revolve around the net. One such success story is about Jessica Gottlieb. Her kids, Jane and Alexander, were trapped on the tarmac, while she was waiting for their Virgin America flight to take off. She twittered about her trouble as “Dear Virgin Air, my children have been on the tarmac for one hour with 90 more minutes to wait. I am at JFK gate b25. Pls RT” using her iPhone.
Within minutes she received phone call from Virgin assuring her that her kids would be fine. Talking on this success story, she said “They contacted the gate agent manager and explained to us the entire weather situation. Within 20 minutes of that conversation, the plane took off.”
What you have to do is, just open an account in Twitter or Facebook and join their friends’ list or follow travel companies available on the site. This is just the beginning of the social media revolution, join it now and enjoy every moment in your life.
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