Twisney

I was listening to the NetCot podcast and was directed to www.twisney.com. It’s a site that basically uses the Twitter Technology to provide updates about the Disney Theme Parks. I decided to sign up and give it a try.  You can find me as mypalal.  That’s my twitter account.

It’s a really interesting idea.  If you’re at the park, you can document your day. Currently through e-mails, I can indicate what ride I’m on and how long it took to get there.  If there’s an exciting event, I can take a picture with my camera phone and send it to the site.  When you go to the site, it will toggle you through the past updates and show you the notes.

I can also post wait times for rides and I can visit the site on my celphone and get wait times.

The only problem is that there are not a lot of people using the site, so the information is not that useful.  In order for this site to succeed, there has to be more people willing to post updates.  The more updates, the better the information.

For example, I posted yesterday that the line for Twilight Zone Tower of Terror was 30 minutes and Monster’s Inc was 5 minutes.  That’s great, but I rode them at the end of the day when no one is in the park.

There are a few great applications that can be taken from this site.  If they can get enough wait time information, they can use that data to project wait times for the future.  But again, the only way to make this site useful is to get more people on board and use it.

Give it a try. Go to www.twisney.com and in the upper right hand corner, select Disneyland as your park.