Twitter as a utility
A friend sent me a link to this Baltimore Sun story, noting that twitter.com/BWI_Airport gives out status information on airport conditions. That's pretty cool, and it adds one more useful piece to the Twitter user experience.
Interesting side note on media though - in the Sun story, they don't link to the site - they just include the text of the link. What's with that? Is the silly notion that external links will cause people to not come back still alive?
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[Steven Fenger] March 6, 2009 10:53:46.981
I don't think the non-hyperlinked URL is any attempt to keep you in the walled garden. Its just that the article post engine the Baltimore Sun uses doesn't convert the text of a URL to a real link.