Twitter + meatspace

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Twitter is incredibly amazing and I will not relent in talking about it ad nauseam. Yesterday I was one of those caught in the American Airlines kerfuffle and treated to their classy service. I found myself bored at LAX’s Gate 44, which seems to be in an undisclosed location, because I can’t describe to you how to get there; I think I was blindfolded part of the way there. So to amuse myself I nudged everyone I knew on Twitter. I got back some neat replies from lots of folks who don’t Twitter often. The coolest one, though, I got a few minutes after I had landed.

It turns out my friend John, who lives in San Francisco and who I haven’t seen in a while, was in the air when I nudged and had just landed as well. “Just landed at IAD. Maybe I’ll run into @jerrybrito in the Star Wars-esque people mover,” he said. Holy crap! He didn’t even know where I was traveling, yet there he was. Sure enough, we met up a few minutes later at baggage claim. He had come in on another flight. Totally serendipitous and totally wonderful.

In other news, Flickr now does video.

Apr 10, 2008 | Comments | Tags: , ,

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  1. Posted by Jon - 04/10/2008

    Were they using the megaphones (instead of a PA system) when you were there? My wife and I flew out of gate 44 last time we left from LAX. The whole place smelled like the two bathrooms. So odd..

  2. Posted by Jerry Brito - 04/10/2008

    Megaphones would have been an improvement. They had barely audible PAs and they decided to board two planes at once. So that when agent said they were boarding group 3 everybody from the other plane, which was only boarding group 1, would rush up. And since people had to walk out to the planes, some went to the wrong plane. Fun times.

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