February 2024

On 10th December Chevrolet Italy sent two of their best bloggers on a challenge around the streets of Turin. They used Tweeted Trips to chronicle their adventures, and embedded both blogger’s maps side by side on their website to keep track of their progress and find their winner!

Did you know that you can use Google Maps on your phone while overseas without racking up huge roaming charges? This is a really useful trick when travelling overseas and it allows you to navigate with Google Maps without using any data. How does it work? This first important part is Google Maps Caching. When…

Did you know that you can send tweets via SMS text message? This is especially useful if you are in a remote location with no data connection, or you are roaming overseas and don’t want to rack up roaming charges. Setting up SMS First, you need to register your phone with Twitter. This will attach…

Did you know that you can pinpoint your tweets precisely by setting their latitude and longitude positions manually? How accurate is my Tweet position? If you have turned on location tweets in your Twitter account, then your tweets should already by positioned as accuratly as possible. If you are sending the tweet from a mobile device with…

You can now Retweet, Favourite and Reply to any tweets which appear on a Tweeted Trips map. Just click the Share icon next to the date to open the Twitter sharing menu. Don’t forget you can also share your whole map to Twitter, Facebook and many other social networks using the Share links below the map. Keep sharing, and enjoy…

We first created Tweeted Trips whilst on a global cycle tour when we needed a way to keep friends and family up to date with our adventures. Since then I’ve been quite surprised at how Tweeted Trips is particulary popular amongst cycle tourists and I was wondering why this might be. Perhaps it’s because touring bicyclists travel…