Order your taxi over Twitter with this new experiment/tool

We always like to see innovative uses for Twitter here at the Tweasier blog so I was quite intrigued to discover Twitter’s first taxi rank, @tweetalondoncab. 

Tweetalondoncab is an experiment by a small group of London cabbies to see if Twitter can help connect them with their punters more quickly and easily.

The service is simple; just follow @tweetalondoncab, they will follow back and when you need a cab just DM them with the time you want the cab, where you want picking up, your destination and mobile number. Available cabbies will contact you, choose one and your carriage awaits.

The twittering cabbies do point out that they can’t guarantee a cab will be free the moment you ask so they encourage you to book in advance and don’t suggest relying on them in a ‘1AM, caught in the rain’ situations but hopefully as their roster grows they’ll be able to guarantee more cars and become a very convenient alternative to blindly searching for your nearest rank (or confusedly following Around Me directions.)

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