ArrivedOK now passes geographical coordinates of the travel destinations from its database to Twitter, so every arrival tweet is now geotagged, enabling your followers to see on a map the place where you just landed and have additional context when viewing tweets.

Though Twitter website does not display geotags yet, the growing number of third party applications does, for instance, such popular clients as Echofon, TweetDeck, Seesmic. Examples of other location-based Twitter apps are: Happn.in and Trendsmap.

Enabling geotagging in Twitter

By default the geotagging service is disabled for Twitter users. This means that you have to opt-in to sharing your location and this can only be done through the Settings page on twitter.com.

Follow these links right now to enable geotagging in Twitter:

mobile – twitter.com/account/settings/geo
desktop – twitter.com/account/settings

How it looks like

Now your ArrivedOK tweets will be geotagged and marked with an icon of some kind, depending on what Twitter app you use. Clicking the icon will open a map for you – in the app window or in your browser; some apps display Google Maps, some use Yahoo.

See below the example of Arrivedok geotagging in TweetDeck client. Happy landings!

ArrivedOK – “The Personal Flight Arrival Tracker” – automatically tracks your arrival at airports worldwide and instantly alerts your friends and family by SMS, email, via weblogs and social media – right at the moment you turn on your phone after the landing.
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ArrivedOK will be offline for a couple hours on 17th November 2009, starting at 4:00 am GMT. There will be a planned maintenance. This includes the ArrivedOK.mobi website, SMS and API interaction. Thank you for your patience.

We at Arrivedok.mobi deployed an experimental mobile Twitter add-on application that lets you tweet from your cell phone FOR FREE even from abroad, avoiding charges for SMS, voice or data transfer.

It is available for ArrivedOK registered users only.

How to use it and save money on text and data traffic:

• First, login to your ArrivedOK account or sign-up and authorize your mobile phone to use with ArrivedOK.
• Second, make sure your ArrivedOK account is bound with Twitter in your Profile:My Blogs settings.
• Third, dial +442033550595 FREE of charge from the phone you registered with ArrivedOK and follow the instructions on your phone’s display. See below how it works.

Dial +442033550595. You won’t hear a voice reply. Your call just evokes the interactive menu you’ll see next.	You’ll see the numbered menu. Press OK, enter “1″ (no quote marks) for Twitter, and send it back.	Likewise, choose between the options that appear: (1) tweet whatever you want, (2) preview & tweet a random quotation, (3) tweet your followers about that mobile tool, “0″ to return.
For example, you choose “1> Type & tweet”. You see the usual “What are you doing?” Twitter prompt. Press OK and start typing…	… like that. Then press OK to send it. That’s it.	You’ll get a confirmation that your tweet has been sent. You can just hang up now.

WARNING: It may not work in all mobile networks. For support inquiries, please visit our Support page or email to our techsupport@.

If you want to learn more about the underlying Call2Service and USSD technologies – check out that page.

“My last travel consisted of 6 flights (the guy was flying from Russia to Beijing, Singapore, Jakarta, and all the way back. Click a city name to see how ArrivedOK auto-updates his Twitter status – Editor). Entering all of them into ArrivedOK manually might take time. Fortunately ArrivedOK is integrated with TripIt, so all I needed to do was just forwarding all my booking confirmation emails and e-tickets to TripIt and then importing those records to ArrivedOK. Follow these steps to do it:

1. You should have a registration with TripIt.com. If you don’t, go to their website and sign-up.
2. Forward all your booking confirmation emails and e-tickets to plans@tripit.com
3. Assuming you have an ArrivedOK account, sign-in to ArrivedOK and select New Record. You will see “Import from Tripit” link.
4. Click it and ArrivedOK will import all your new flights and will offer you to edit them. At that stage you can specify your cell phone to track and notifications for all of your flights. Or you can do this later.
5. Don’t forget to make the newly imported records ‘Active’ by clicking the button in the Records Menu.

Now you are ready to fly. Happy landings!”

• “Can I import trips from TripIt so I don’t have to fill everything in?”
• “Linking to tripit.com – that would be really magic.”
• “I use www.tripit.com for all my travels. Please use their RSS feed to create records for me.”

These are quotes from our beta-testers’ emails.

Following these requests we want to announce that ArrivedOK has just integrated with TripIt and made the import of flight records stored in TripIt available to its users. You can find that option at ‘Create event‘ page. It is really a one-click feature. Please check it out and let us know what you think about it.

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