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By: A Luxury Travel Blog » The 10 most followed travel-related Twitter accounts � updated

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:26:25 +0000

[...] 2 years ago now, I blogged about the most followed travel-related accounts on Twitter (here and here). � Since then, Twitter has seen enormous growth of course so I thought it was about time [...]

By: limohire

limohire — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:37:09 +0000

Nice Post. Great, thanks for sharing this list Paul. Tourists can get reliable and useful travel information from USA, America, Europe, Africa and more.

Thanks

By: cochhire

cochhire — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:38:40 +0000

Thanks for sharing this list. I tend to tweet a lot of links, but most of them are other�s links that I think my readers would enjoy and get value from. It takes a lot of work to be good at giving great links that people love to retweet and find valuable. So I tend to do that more & even tweet more when we are in Spain for the winter immersing deeply and have less time ( so tweet less) when we are in our 7 months of travel phase.

Thanks

By: Samsoni

Samsoni — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:47:06 +0000

This is best travel information blog for luxury holiday.

Tourists can get reliable and useful travel information from USA, America, Europe, Africa and more.

By: Happy Hotelier

Happy Hotelier — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:16:58 +0000

I was pointed to Thesis by two fellow travel bloggers and plunged head over into it. It helped with my own indecisiveness because changing the look and feel can be done with one mouse click rather than hacking around in the files…

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:08:39 +0000

To Blogontravel… because some of those links are to sites run by my online travel company, The Dedicated Partnership Ltd. Google doesn’t like webmasters interlinking between their sites when they have multiple sites as it regards it as an unfair advantage. So, to keep Google happy in that regard, we make all the links nofollow. This doesn’t apply to the links within posts (unless of course they are to our own links but that rarely ever happens).

Paul

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:05:31 +0000

Great, thanks for sharing this list Paul..I had only added two of the ten, but just added the other ten.

By: Blogontravel

Blogontravel — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:43:12 +0000

Off topic question: Why do you add a no-follow tag on your blogroll sites?!

By: Blogontravel

Blogontravel — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:41:10 +0000

Damn..! And I thought 2000 was a lot!

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:51:12 +0000

Oh, and as for putting my face as my Twitter avatar… I don’t want to scare off all those followers now, do I? ;-)

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:50:16 +0000

A similar luxury-based Twitter list? I hadn’t thought of that, Guido… thanks, will work on something some time.

Re: blog design. You may recall that I asked about that a while back – http://www.aluxurytravelblog.com/2008/04/03/time-for-a-re-design/ (and you kindly commented then). I got such a mixture of responses that I was left feeling that I’m better off adding more content than tinkering with how it looks.

I’m very conscious that it’s not the most slick-looking website but, constraints on time and lack of decisiveness on my part, have meant that I’ve just kept with this look for now.

Paul

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:16:29 +0000

As I said, Garri, I didn’t anticipate spotting them all. The reason why Adventure Girl has so many followers is discussed above.

Thanks for dropping by… I hope to provide an updated list in the near future.

Paul

By: Garri

Garri — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:16:07 +0000

Had you looked here: http://wefollow.com/tag/travel

You would see that after Jet Blue, Adventure Girl has a whopping half a million followers! But, she didn’t make your Top 10, Paul!

@KelleyVick: I can’t say why Adventure Girl has so many followers but what is evident, unlike the majority in this post’s ‘Top 10′, is she didn’t acquire them by mass following people ;-)

Most of the names on this list have a follower count closely correlated to the amount of people they’re following. Not that there’s anything wrong with that other than it’s not interesting.

By: Happy Hotelier

Happy Hotelier — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:54:57 +0000

Great achievement, Paul. Nothing wrong with blowing your own nose (eh trumpet), although I understand that is more culturally correct at the other side of the pond:-)

Maybe an idea to put your face in the upper right corner so that your facebook fans are able to connect?

In addition coming back to your restyling question some time ago: Look at the Thesis theme. You’ll have to pay for it, but it is truly amazing what you can get from it and so easy to change style from 2 to 3 columns and so on.

Finally: when doe we get a Twitter list for luxury bloggers?

By: John

John — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:16:39 +0000

Paul, Looking up WeFollow you are not in the Top 10. I know you like publicising how well your sites, blogs and Twitter accounts are doing, but sometimes it is best to let others tell you how good they are and not to blow your own trumpet. The same applies to Jeanne of Soultravelers3.
Personally, I have nothing but praise for the Aardvark Travel Forum and the Soultravelers3 Blog and Twitter Stream. The Luxury Travel Blog is also a very well designed and written blog. Many other people and organisations have also commended you both, quite deservedly.

By: Get A Trip

Get A Trip — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:38:20 +0000

Okay, so this post sure was an eye opener. We had no idea Twitter as a tool was being used as a marketing tool to this capacity. Then again we are slow with a lot of this technology including blogging. We will begin to follow with a passion the top three travel twitters you have listed here. Thanks for the info.

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:35:23 +0000

Apologies for the omission… I did of course know about you so I’m not sure how that happened. I’ll do a revised list in a few weeks and make sure you’re included.

Paul

By: Kendal H

Kendal H — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:45:55 +0000

I really enjoy following Jet Blue’s twitter. I have never flown Jet Blue, but I here great things. They are alot like Westjet in Canada, which I love. (hopefully they get a points system soon). From their twitter account, their CS seems top notch!

By: Andy Hayes

Andy Hayes — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:26:19 +0000

I’m pleased to see others realise that there is no real value in the size of ‘followship’ (is that a word? it is now!)

I get so tired of the hype and internet marketing scum who purport slimy ways to increase followers. How about trying to put out some engaging content and conversation!

Thanks for the interesting information, Paul.

By: soultravelers3

soultravelers3 — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:37:33 +0000

Ha! I just realized that it was Paul Johnson who wrote this and we have long been friends on facebook ( and share 40 friends in common)!

The tweet that sent me here mentioned @Boutique_travel so that is who I did not know ( as they appear fairly new).I have retweeted good links from @luxurytravel and we have been following each other.

All the more reason that it is funny you missed us, Paul, but these things happen.;) We do live large on little, but we often do luxury travel and have stayed at some of the best boutique hotels in the world which we write and tweet about.