News and chat about and around ArrivedOK - the Personal Flight Arrival Tracker and mobile tool for travelers like you to instantly notify your friends and family when you arrive at airports worldwide
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:
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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What media air travelers choose to inform their friends and relatives about their flights, provided with a choice between SMS, email and social media? See our latest stats on that topic.
ArrivedOK is the service that notifies your designated recipients about your arrival to airports worldwide. ArrivedOK doesn’t do this by tracking flights, it does it by tracking your cell phone when you switch it on in your destination. Once it has been detected as on in the visiting mobile network the arrival notifications are sent out automatically. Users can choose how to send those alerts – by SMS, email, or via social media/networks.
And here comes the interesting part – what media air travelers choose to deliver their arrival alerts? Our latest stats say that despite all that social media buzz, people still prefer SMS and good old email. Perhaps because email notifications are free of charge at ArrivedOK, one might say, but that’s not the case: ArrivedOK provides all social media alerts for free too but they show dramatically lower popularity.
Here is the percentage of all ArrivedOK arrival notifications by media channels (March 2009 – January 2010):
One thing could explain the popularity of SMS among our users – ArrivedOK text alerts are remarkably cheaper than roaming text tariffs, but that does not explain the lower usage of social media services, which are completely free.
We would say that Twitter is doing fine, Facebook is overrated, and Blogspot and LiveJournal numbers reflect the decline of blogging.
This is basically European stats as we don’t currently provide the service in the United States and China (though we’re working on it).
20 Jan | Author: Andrey Deriabin | Category: Uncategorized
ArrivedOK is now working with LinkedIn, which is going to make both ArrivedOK and LinkedIn more powerful for you.
When you set your arrival alerts on ArrivedOK you can now make them appear in your LinkedIn status immediately after landing, letting your colleagues and business contacts know where you are in real time – without using your mobile or smartphone onboard. You can also customize your message to your LinkedIn connections, making it different from arrival alerts delivered to your friends, family, or posted to your personal blog.
Let the places you travel contribute to your professional identity on the web. Work, business or leisure, your trips bring important information about who you are, what you do, and how you do it. Show your followers that you’re a smart traveler.
How does ArrivedOK work with LinkedIn?
When you want to share your arrival details with a broader audience via LinkedIn (posting to Facebook, blogs and Twitter is also available) – go to your ArrivedOK Preferences and connect LinkedIn to your Profile.
When creating your arrival message, go to ‘Post to blog/network’ section, check ‘LinkedIn’ box and type your message if you want. That message will appear in your LinkedIn status right at the moment you turn on your phone upon your arrival, altogether following our standard ‘I arrivedOK in…’ text.
So go ahead and get started. Link your ArrivedOK and LinkedIn accounts today.
Twitter has a huge aviation community – from airlines and airports, to cabin crew and aviation enthusiasts. Whether you like to fly a plane or just watch planes fly, there are lots of aviation geeks on Twitter with whom you can converse about your passions or just listen.Shashank Nigam, High Flying Tweets: 11 of the best airline or aviation bloggers / journalists to follow on Twitter, Aug 2009
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