{"id":22,"date":"2009-09-30T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/and-that-is-the-power-of-twitter\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:58:16","slug":"and-that-is-the-power-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/technology\/and-that-is-the-power-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"And that is the power of Twitter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every week I get these emails from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Travelzoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Travelzoo<\/a>, usually I don&#8217;t pay much attention.  Well, I have been thinking about going up to Los Angeles (well, Carson) again to see another <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mlsnet.com\/t106\/\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/russkw\/status\/3720960403\" target=\"_blank\">soccer game<\/a>, and out of nowhere I get an email from Travelzoo informing me that there is a 50% off promo for the game I want to go to.  Sweet! <\/p>\n<p>So all excited I follow the link to buy the tickets, and it turns out that to get the promo on Ticketmaster you need to enter a promo code&#8230; Uh oh, no code was in the Travelzoo email or the linked page on their site. So I look all over their site for a way to ask questions. Can&#8217;t find one. The contact page is just a generic &#8220;comments&#8221; form.  Bummer.  Replying to the email probably won&#8217;t get a reply.  So I try Google.  Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, Twitter! I find them on Twitter, said an <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Travelzoo\" target=\"_blank\">@Travelzoo<\/a> tweet, and there you go, less than 2 hours later I get the promo code!<\/p>\n<p>And that, people, is the power of Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week I get these emails from Travelzoo, usually I don&#8217;t pay much attention.  Well, I have been thinking about going up to Los Angeles (well, Carson) again to see another Galaxy soccer game, and out of nowhere I get an email from Travelzoo informing me that there is a 50% off promo for the game I want to go to.  Sweet! <\/p>\n<p>So all excited I follow the link to buy the tickets, and it turns out that to get the promo on Ticketmaster you need to enter a promo code&#8230; Uh oh, no code was in the Travelzoo email or the linked page on their site. So I look all over their site for a way to ask questions. Can&#8217;t find one. The contact page is just a generic &#8220;comments&#8221; form.  Bummer.  Replying to the email probably won&#8217;t get a reply.  So I try [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/technology\/and-that-is-the-power-of-twitter\/\" style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><br \/>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:.9em;\">links and styling have been removed in the excerpt, read more to see complete content<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[40,39,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}