During this last two months the use of the micro-blogging system has seen a spectacular increase. Even Tim O’Reilly echoed this trend. Companies, media and even individuals use this communication channel to inform, build a corporate image or improve personal and professional relationships.

Twitter was the first micro-blogging system that appeared when mixing components from social networks and blogs; it allowed inserting short messages in the fashion of short articles of only 140 characters. Its simplicity, infinite number of updates and the possibility to use the said tool through mobile phones and pda’s make of Twitter a tool extremely useful for those travelers wishing to inform about their whereabouts at any moment. A good example is Soultravelers3, a blog written by a family that is travelling around the world and, for instance, wants to share their visit to Seville by means of their Twitter account. What better than uploading a video from one of the “Semana Santa” parades?
We would like to highlight that Soultravelers3 has been awarded the first prize in the Micro-Blogging category by the Travel Blogger Awards hosted by Lonely Planet, for bringing forward an amazing ‘What are you doing now?’ experience. Check their gallery on Twitpic – a site to share photos on Twitter- where they keep uploading content to picture all their comments on Twitter.

Another Twitter user that ended up being finalist in the Travel Blogger Awards in the micro-blogging category is Nerds Eye View, a girl from Seattle who, equipped with an ukulele, a camera and a passport as her only luggage, just decided to travel around the world and recount her experiences on Twitter

As you can see, the blogosphere brings us some really incredible cases.On Hoobing we also use this tool to bring you our latest news: last hotels and blogs that registered with us, the “blog of the week” section”, sector news, etc. You can visit us and become our follower