We’ve seen Tweets posted by plants, a space shuttle and also a house, so it’s not surprising to hear that some commercial jets are now Tweeting and posting Facebook messages. Well kind of anyway.
Fair enough it’s not the plane itself doing the Tweeting: it’s actually the airline. Lufthansa has set up a new service named MySkyStatus that automatically posts the current position of your flight to Twitter or Facebook so your friends can follow your travels.
Typical status updates read “flying over San Francisco Intl, California 94030, USA on United Airlines” or “flying over Grantsville, UT 84029, USA on United Airlines”. It seems the system posts the flight’s position around once per hour, pulling info from a database of flight information.
