Twelve #Travel Tweeps Twittering

11/13/09  Print this post Print this post    22 Comments   Popular   Written by Tom Gates
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It was Margaret Atwood who said, “Wanting to know an author because you like his work is like wanting to know a duck because you like paté.” This didn’t stop us. We have been wondering about the faces behind the Tweets and have wrangled together pictures of a dozen Tweeps from the travel world…more to come as this series kicks off.

@traveldudes

@velvetescapes

@traveldesigned

@theplanetd

@ShannonRTW

@savvynavigator

@journeywoman

@andrewghayes

@earthXplorer

@collazoprojects

@Brillianttrips

@IsabellesTravel

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Follow the Matador Staff on Twitter! @rossborden, @LolaAkinmade, @dahveed_miller ,@tcpatterson, @ianmack, @livingholistic, @waywardlife, @collazoprojects, @vagab0nderz, @halamen, @joshywashington, @thefutureisred, @candicewalsh, @andrewghayes


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Tom Gates

Tom is currently taking a lap of Earth, living in 12 countries over 12 months in 2009, all the while documenting this trek in a book to be called Wayward. He is also pretending to be a third person right now and is obviously writing his own bio. He knows that you knew that, despite the deft maneuvering of pronouns.

22 Comments... join the discussion!

  • Paul Sullivan replied on November 13, 2009

    So THAT’S what they all look like! Always nice to put a face to a tweet. Great work Tom…

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  • Dorothee replied on November 13, 2009

    Wow, cool! Thanx for sharing the faces of these great travel tweeple! :)

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  • Keith replied on November 13, 2009

    Thanks for including Velvet Escape. Really appreciate it. Great overview. Always great to be able to put a face to a name.

    Cheers,
    Keith

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  • Candice replied on November 13, 2009

    Such a good lookin’ bunch!

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  • Trisha Miller replied on November 13, 2009

    Love this post! Everyone on your list here I follow on Twitter, and several of them have written guest posts for my site – this is SO cool to see them “at work”!

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  • Michelle replied on November 13, 2009

    Julie’s Mac is making me drool….

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  • Jason of TwoBackpackers replied on November 13, 2009

    This is great, to finally see peoples faces!

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    • David Miller replied to Jason of TwoBackpackers on November 14, 2009

      sorry about that.

      links fixed.

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  • Lola replied on November 13, 2009

    Always cool to see the faces behind the tweets

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  • Tom Gates replied on November 14, 2009

    @earthXplore = NASA Mission Control?

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  • Dave and Deb replied on November 14, 2009

    I love this post! We followed everyone except @collazoprojects but we are following her now! So great to see everyone at work! I want to be where @SavvyNavigator is!

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  • Dian Emery replied on November 14, 2009

    What a great post – loved seeing these fun photo’s of people I talk to almost everyday!
    @earthXplorer-love the double monitor thing going on there, now that’s keeping connected:)

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  • brian from nodebtworldtravel.com replied on November 14, 2009

    Fun post! More people to follow.

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  • Evelyn Hannon replied on November 14, 2009

    Just wanted to say that I appreciate being invited to be part of this photo essay. I’m definitely the ‘oldie’ in the group. That’s great because I have so much to learn and you young ‘uns are the perfect tweeps to teach me! And you do … every day!

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  • jack replied on November 15, 2009

    Wow, what a great idea for a blog post! It definitely “humanizes” all of you travel tweeps!
    EarthXplorer, that’s a serious keyboard you got going there!

    Cheers!

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  • GotPassport replied on November 15, 2009

    Awesome! Love the enthusiasm of this post! Give us more travelers and their environment!!

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  • TravelDesigned replied on November 16, 2009

    How FUN!!
    I missed the premiere of this post due to my recent trip to Los Cabos. I love seeing who some of my fav tweeps are, now if I could only meet them!
    Thanks for the pleasure of being included in yours photo essay. :)
    Stephanie aka TravelDesigned

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  • IsabellesTravel replied on November 16, 2009

    Thanks for including me! Sorry, you can only see one hand, I needed the other one to take the picture ;-)
    I wouldn’t mind having EarthXplorer’s workplace. Awesome with the two screens!
    Great post.

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  • Sarah replied on November 17, 2009

    Nobody’s using Brizzly? Darn, it’s my Twitter fav.

    & ditto on Julie’s Mac. Yowza!

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  • Sarah replied on November 17, 2009

    P.S., this was such a fun article. Loved seeing everyone at work/play.

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  • Andrew replied on November 17, 2009

    What a great idea. Love this article and cool to see many of my travel friends included in it.

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