It's Time to Twitter

Have you started following me on Twitter yet? If not, it's time!

I know that Twitter can seem like it's just for kids or celebrities who have the presumption that everyone in the world wants to know every minutiae of their life. But it's evolving into so much more than that.

For example, it allows for a quick way to get out information on breaking news stories. If you were watching me on Twitter this morning, you would have read an article where NCL's CEO talks about indications cruise fares may be heading up again. While I could re-write that as an editorial for here, it's a tidbit that is more easily communicated in a shorter, more concise format. Hence, I tweeted it for everyone.

While a lot, probably a majority, of Twitter users access it from handheld devices such as smart phones, you can access it and follow your favorites from your computer as well. You can just go to the address of the person you wish to follow (www.twitter.com/whomever), or use a free program such as TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com) to follow multiple people, even get updates on news, sports and weather! It stays on your desktop and alerts to you new posts from those you're following.

Why am I encouraging you to follow me on Twitter? Next month, I'll be doing another of my "Live From" series of cruise reviews, this time from Italy, but because of the port-intensive nature of the cruise I'll be on, and other time constraints, I'm going to make use of Twitter for a majority of the updates, including pictures! While a few of the posts will be made here, if you want to follow me while I show a different aspect to cruising, you'll want to do so on Twitter. You can even ask me questions while I'm there!

So start checking it out now. You can follow me at www.twitter.com/cruiseresource or @cruiseresource on Twitter. I look forward to tweeting with you!