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How to use Twitter & ArrivedOk to alert others about your arrival

09 Mar   |   Author: Andrey Deriabin  |  Category: ArrivedOK News, How-to

For those who’s not familiar with ArrivedOK application, it is about notifying others about your arrival to airports worldwide. It works by detecting a subscriber’s mobile phone in a destination GSM network when the user turns it on after the landing. When the passenger’s cell phone is tracked in the destination airport, ArrivedOK instantly sends text or email messages to the list of recipients the subscriber created online and/or posts them to user’s weblog. Including TWITTER!

Suppose, you fly from Washington, DC to Tucson, Arizona, on the 15th of March. So you just fill in the mobile number of your friend in Washington whom you want to be notified by SMS, and add a short message for her. You can also create another group of recipients consisting of one friend and one colleague in Tucson and send them a completely different message using email in addition to SMS. (se the short intro video here)

You can have even more fun by alerting your followers on Twitter! You just need to go your Profile | My Blogs and add Twitter to the list of your blogging services (Blogspot and LiveJournal are also available).

Then you check ‘Post to Twitter’ checkbox when creating your message – and it will appear in your blog right at the moment when you turn on your phone upon your arrival. Like that:

I arrivedOK to Tucson, AZ. See you soon!

Please retweet!

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