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Music, Sunday Shout-out · May 3, 2009

Sunday Shout-out: Twitter

Italy has changed me in so many wonderful and unexpected ways. I am sure anyone who has spent a significant amount of time in another country would say the same thing. For instance, I have noticed that I have gone from being the slightly uptight, exceedingly punctual, and far too serious perfectionist to being the much more relaxed, on time (but just barely) person, with a nickname in Italian that roughly translates as “silly pepper.” It is amazing what a difference two years can make!

And now something else I never expected has happened. I have fallen in love with Twitter! It has only been in the last year that I have started to discover the virtues of social networking. I am a latecomer I guess you could say. However, since joining Twitter a little over a month ago, I have been continually surprised by the amazing people I have met there. I have discovered a large community of travel writers, travelers, and people in the travel industry sharing fabulous tweets (what the posts on Twitter are called) every day. In such a short time, I have connected with people who share tidbits of travel information, news, super ticket deals, and their travel thoughts, writings and experiences from where they live all over the world. The sense of community I have discovered there impresses me more day by day. Yes, I have become a definite Twitter fan!

…Click on the button above to go to my Twitter page…
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I look forward to seeing you all there! While writing this post I found I had the following song in my head, which I now nominate as the official Twitter song:

Posted In: Music, Sunday Shout-out

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Comments

  1. Anne in Oxfordshire says

    May 3, 2009 at 13:02

    Italy would change me too, I loved being there, be it only for our holidays..spent the last 3 years there in different areas.

    Following you on twitter now…

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  2. LuLu says

    May 3, 2009 at 17:10

    It’s so great following you on Twitter! 🙂 I hope Italy has some positive effects on me when I finally get over there for a longer period of time. I know I like who I become when I’m there on vacation! 🙂

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  3. Laura says

    May 4, 2009 at 08:57

    Ciao Anne! Following you now on twitter, too. Nice to have another F1 fan to tweet with! 🙂 Where have you visited in Italy?

    Ciao LuLu! You will love it! And you are getting very close now, right?? Do you know where you will be heading to? Love your tweets!!

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