Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 July 2011 11:04
Written by Admin
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
For Savings and Unbelievable Air Travel Deals, Social
Networking Is Where the Action Is Today
Sometimes, people looking for air travel deals can end up just
looking where it’s convenient to look – at the travel websites
like Orbitz, Travelocity or Expedia. So if they aren’t looking
where the deals really are, where should they be looking? Today,
without a doubt, the best air travel deals are on Twitter. Often,
you can find tickets for standard flights on Twitter that end up
costing you hundreds of dollars less; and you don’t find these
deals on any standard travel website that you would normally
think of for new deals. Social networking is the new travel
savings hotspot.
And it isn’t just flight tickets that go out at a massive
discount on Twitter; you can get discounts on hotel reservations
and other travel purchases like toronto car rental too.
Twitter has travel experts, usually people affiliated to some
airline or hotel, who put out these short-lived deals for their
followers. You just need to follow the right Twitter member.
Often, the Twitter member you want could just be the Twitter
presence of your favorite travel website – Expedia and so on.
It’s a funny thing – that they should offer their best deals not
on their website, there primary place of business, but on
Twitter. It could be that they’re just trying to win a bit of
loyalty. You have to prove that you are loyal enough to them to
be following them on Twitter.
To search for toronto car
rentals deals you’re looking for on Twitter, you just need to
search for the hub closest to you. If for instance, you plan to
the flying out of New York, you might want to search with the
@JFK string on Twitter. Once you find a member who seems to be
dominant in the area, you can quickly follow them. Once you find
enough Twitter members to follow, you can set them up into
separate groups. That should help you arrive at the deals that
are the most important to you as quickly as possible. A better
idea than waiting for the information you’re looking for to come
to you, would often be to search for it yourself. You just have
to enter what you’re looking for into Twitter’s search box with a
hash tag in front of the search string. Of course, searching
through Twitter can be quite a daunting task. But if you kind of
enjoy treasure hunts, you are sure to come by some pretty
unbelievable air travel deals.
But searching like this isn’t the best possible way to use
Twitter. Twitter is about connecting with other people. If all
you need to do is to find some great deals all you need to do is
to ask. You need to put the word out on Twitter. And when you
actually do come by a deal, you really need to act quickly. Those
Twitter deals may be great; but they don’t stick around for
long.