Coming soon – TwiTrip to Manchester | Travel | guardian.co.uk

Posted on August 15, 2010

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Coming soon – TwiTrip to Manchester | Travel | guardian.co.uk.

Recently I stumbled across a really great idea on the guardian newspaper.  The article is titled “Coming soon – TwiTrip to Manchester.  It would seem that on this upcoming Wednesday Benji Lanyado is “heading to Manchester armed only with a mobile phone – and ready to go wherever the best of your tweets take him.”

Benji Lanyado is a travel writer for the guardian newspaper (guardian.co.uk).  On completing his final year at Manchester University in 2005 he specialises in budget travel and blogging.  He is a West Ham fan who is waiting for Acid Jazz to come back into style.  At least this is the information provided about him on the Guardian website.  Ben is obviously a big twitter fan (twitter.com/benjilanyado) with thousands of followers.

Based on the teaser for his TwiTrips (found here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/aug/13/twitrip-manchester-twitter-uk) it seems he selects a city and then receives tweets from his adoring fans guiding him through the city.  In short, the tweets tell him where to go.  This is a fantastic use of social media and we here at Around Town Flats thought it was well worth posting a brief blog article regarding his efforts.

In the past Benji has visited sites like Oxford, Nottingham and Leeds.  In Leeds he was instructed to visit sites such as Sella Bar, Skype Lounge at the City Inn and tea at Ellington – Leeds’ first 5 star hotel. In Nottingham he checked out the Exchange, the Screen Room (the smallest cinema in the world) and the Space City exhibit.  Lastly in Oxford he visited the Christchurch grounds, the Summer Eights and Ben’s Cookies.

We here at Around Town Flats intend to send Benji a few tweets and see if we can’t steer him towards some of our lovely locations in and around Manchester.  Feel free to follow the links and check out the original articles and if you have any questions, or suggestions for locations to tweet to Benji, go ahead and leave them in the comment section of this blog post.

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