I was up early this morning (as usual) and got to watch Jason Calacanis go through the awful realization at the airport that he left his passport at his paris hotel. That was just the beginning of the drama. He twittered his plight. Called around. Got someone at his hotel to retrieve his passport and hire a motorcycle delivery man. But would the motorcycle get their in time?
Read Jason’s twitter feed to find out the details. That was fun. And it was cool to get the posts in real time as…
That is one of the best uses of Twitter I’ve ever seen. Usually it’s just a lot of mutual masturbation with the @monkeyboy, @TinaMarie, @steverubel…
But this is exciting - this is sort of what I hoped for and envisioned when I heard about the service initially.
— adamiss
I did the same thing on Tumblr when I was close to missing a flight from NYC. Except I was able to include photos. Again, I don’t understand the point of Twitter.
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