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!

Now, when you arrive to your destination ArrivedOK can post your arrival message to your weblogs, in addition to sending SMS and email. It has been working with Twitter, Blogger (Blogspot), and LiveJournal; other blogging service will be added later. You can see how it looks like in our recently published ArrivedOK Intro Video. I think a status message like “I ArrivedOK to %destination%” makes perfect fit with Twitter’s micro-format.
By the way, you can follow me and my blog updates on Twitter here.

It directly relates to ArrivedOK but may also help you with other services where you need to spread news on the go via SMS.

A lot of people know about it. It is called … Twitter! In Russia the closest service is called SMSter.

For those, who are unfamiliar:

You can send an SMS or email from wherever you are (including an automatic one from ArrivedOK) and the message will appear in your stream which you have on the web to which people can subscribe, which you can embed in your blog, etc. Usually friends would subscribe to your stream and if they turn on SMS notification, they will receive your news right on their mobile phones. Thus one SMS can spread to many SMS.

The Russian variant works similarly.