Twitter Whilst You Travel

Love it or hate it, social networking sites are taking up an increasing amount of our free time. Even when on holidays, people find it difficult to resist the urge to pop into an internet café to check out what’s going on back home and to let their friends and family know what they’ve been getting up to—some just cannot wait to share their pictures of the beach or the tourist hotspots with everybody even before the holiday is over.

Many people see it as a cheaper alternative to using their mobile phones, yet this is a view that a Vodafone Passport customer could genuinely dispute, since they are treated to no roaming charges between June 1st and August 31st—customers with Vodafone Passport can make and receive calls and texts abroad at the same rates as in the UK during this period, and thereafter it only costs 75p connection charge for making calls and 25p to send a text from a European destination.

Perhaps you don’t want to give away all your holiday tales whilst you’re out there though, and merely want to let people know how you’re doing—for this purpose websites such as Facebook and Twitter can often be a more succinct method of communication, allowing you to check your account as and when you wish, which is great if you find yourself having too much fun to reply to texts or have a long chat on the phone with friends and family.

Many mobile phone companies offer you a Facebook application as part of your internet bundle but only customers with a mobile phone from Vodafone can use Twitter via SMS. Vodafone’s Twitter application allows you to send and receive tweets on your mobile, and you can even do it via text message - it’s also free at the moment, though this promotion is set to last for a limited period only, after which, each ‘tweet’ will be taken out of your monthly text bundle. *

The service doesn’t require any software downloads and you don’t even have to connect to the internet—all you need to do is send your tweets, like a text, to 86444 and your profile will be updated. So you don’t even need to waste time or money getting to an internet café! Wherever you are and whatever the time, with Vodafone you can make sure the people back home know what an amazing time you’re having, and these snippets of your holiday mean you’ve still got plenty to talk about when you get home.

*To explore the various applications – such as Twitter  - visit the Vodafone website to browse the various mobile phones they have on  offer for  their customers.