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Market Wire - Yapta.com Now Issuing Airfare Savings Alerts via Twitter
Yapta.com, an online travel shopping service
that monitors airline ticket pricing and award seat availability for
travelers, today announced that its airfare savings alerts are available
via Twitter. Yapta now provides travelers with instant notification of
airfare savings either via the new Twitter feed or traditional email. Since
launching its free service in May 2007, Yapta has alerted over 550,000
travelers to more than $135 million in savings.
“Giving Yapta users the option to receive airfare alerts on Twitter only
enhances their ability to capture perishable savings,” said Tom Romary,
president and CEO of Yapta.com. “Airfare prices are highly volatile and can
fluctuate at any time — so Twitter is a terrific way to give travelers
immediate pricing updates on specific flights, enabling them to act fast
and get the best deal on airfare before the opportunity expires.”
Twitter is a popular, real-time messaging service where people share short
updates (140 characters) about current events and read updates posted by
others. According to the latest numbers from Nielsen Online, Twitter is
the fastest growing social-networking site on the Web. It has been
estimated that there are between 2-3 million registered users of the
service.
Current Yapta users can opt-in to the Twitter feed by simply entering their
Twitter username on the “Yapta Settings” page. From that point forward,
any flight Yapta “tracks” on behalf of the traveler will generate a “Tweet”
(a Twitter message) if the price drops, or if the traveler becomes eligible
for an airline travel credit.
About Yapta.com
Yapta.com, Your Amazing Personal Travel Assistant, was founded in 2006 with
the mission to help air travelers receive the optimal value out of their
online travel planning. Yapta enables travelers to find their ideal
flights, track airfare prices and be alerted when fares drop or when
frequent flier miles can be used to book a flight. Bringing to light
pro-consumer “guaranteed airfare” policies offered by many airlines, Yapta
also helps travelers obtain an airline travel voucher when the price
decreases on tickets that have already been purchased. For more information
visit: www.yapta.com .
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Contact:
Jeff Pecor
Yapta.com
206-625-2301
Email Contact
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