May 13, 2009

The Amusement Industry is all aTwitter

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Twitter? What is this Twitter I keep hearing about?

Twitter itself describes itself thus:

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Wikipedia goes a little more in depth:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

If you are already Twitter, continue reading, if not you may want to check out the Twitter site first.

Although Twitter has been around a couple years, 2009 has brought a huge explosion in use. Below is a list of Twitter users involved in the amusement industry. It is hard to keep up with all of the new accounts, so this list is as complete as it can be when this article was published. If you know of any Twitter accounts not listed below that should be, please let me know.

Parks/Attractions

adventurepark Adventure Park USA
alton_towers Alton Towers
CanobieLakePark Canobie Lake Park
carowinds Carowinds
cedarpoint Cedar Point
ColumbusZoo Columbus Zoo
ConeyIslandFun Coney Island
TheCyclone Coney Island Cyclone
Darienlake Darian Lake
Dollywood Dollywood
Draytonmanor Drayton Manor
funtownusa Funtown Splashtown
GhostlyManor Ghostly Manor
WonderlandPier Gillian’s Wonderland Pier
HolidayWorld Holiday World (the first park on Twitter)
KingsIslandPR Kings Island
LaRondeSixFlags La Ronde
LEGOLANDWindsor Legoland
MagicSpringsFUN Magic Springs
NavyPier Navy Pier
OhioStateFair Ohio State Fair
PaultonsPark Paultons Park
beachboardwalk Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
santasvillage Santa’s Village
RealShamu Sea World
TheRealMrSix Six Flags (Mr. Six)
SixFlagsMexico Six Flags Mexico
SixFlagsOverGA Six Flags Over Georgia
SplashinSafari Splashing Safari
sftv Six Flags TV
wdwnews Walt Disney World News
Wild_Adventures Wild Adventures

Companies

thegravitygroup Gravity Group, The
GreatCoasters Great Coasters International

Organizations

ACESOAR ACE SOAR (Southern Ohio Area Region)
Darkride Darkride and Funhouse Enthusiasts (DAFE)
IAAPA2009 International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA)
FlaCoasterClub Florida Coaster Club

Other

TheDisneyBlog Disney Blog, The
Disney_Tweets Disney History and Walt’s Quotes delivered twice a day.
Attractions Orlando Attractions Magazine
pointbuzz Point Buzz
ThemePark Theme Park Insider
ThemeParkReview Theme Park Review
AmusementPark Today in Amusement History
Roller_Coaster Ultimate Rollercoaster.com
screamscape Screamscape
DisneyD23 D23: The Official Community for Disney Fans

People

RaptorGuy Brian Neal (ACE Southern Ohio Representative)
DerekClayton Derek Clayton (ACE Southern Ohio Webmaster)
DAFE_Rick Rick Davis (DAFE President and Founder)
CPTony Tony Clark (Cedar Point’s Interactive Marketing Manager)
SantaClausLand Paula Werne (Holiday World Director of Public Relations)
SchlitterTweet Jeffrey Siebert (Schlitterbahn’ Director of Corporate Communications)
Will_Koch Will Koch (Holiday World CEO)

Note: this article was cross-posted to the ACESOAR website.

Category : Amusement

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