It's A Small World After All

A Little Twistory

It is indeed a small world after all and Twitter is making it even smaller.  While it is true that Twitter has revolutionized social networking in general, it especially true that it has completely changed the online community of Disney fans.  For years now, fans have been gathering on message boards, other websites, e-mail groups, and in other ways to express their love of the Mouse and, when not physically immersed in Disney, we are virtually a part of the magic.  Twitter has bridged the gap between physically being there and virtually being there.  On Twitter, users can hear the news literally as it unfolds.  (We certainly saw that happen with the recent D23 convention.)  They can get up-to-the-minute tweets from the World and the Land.  They can experience the sights, the sounds, and the smells as they happen.  It is truly an amazing tool!

I'm WDW Tweets (@wdwtweets).  I started using Twitter to feed my Disney hunger back in April 2009.  At first, I posted the typical WDW-related news bites as they became available to me.  However, I quickly realized that I could help spread pixie dust to Disney fans everywhere by simply keeping my eyes peeled and "spotting" people in Walt Disney World.  It was a pretty easy task really.  I just looked out for those who were tweeting about their adventures from the World.  With a little wit, I let my few followers know who was doing what.  People enjoyed being SPOTTED and others enjoyed knowing about their whereabouts and whatdoings.  Before I knew it, I had a whole lot of followers!  To date, I've got 1324 without any self-promotion.  This amazes and overwhelms me.  It just goes to show, though, that this is the type of stuff that Disney fans crave.

Twourists  

One of my followers called me a "Twourist."  I fell in love with that term and started to recognize many more twourists in my midst, who were dying to share their knowledge, insight and love of Disney with anyone who would listen.  Enter this blog.  I thought that it would be great to have a place where everyone and anyone could post about Disney things that interested them.  Twitter and Disney are what bind us together.

The hope is that each day there will be a different post about Walt Disney World and occassionally other parts of Disney too.  Likely, there will be a great variety of topics from many different perspectives.  I am excited to see where this will go and open to many possibilities.  This is a place where all of us WDW Twourists can meet.

So I hope you will join us in making the online Disney community an even smaller world.  Feel free to read and comment.  Subscribe if you'd like.  Visit the links on the side.  And if you would like to contribute to our blog, just send us a note and we will draw you into our circle.  wdwtweets@gmail.com