A group of licensed London cabbies have started [in July 2009] using a collective Twitter account (@tweetalondoncab) to connect with ‘punters’ and accept bookings.
From their website:
“… the service that is hoping to help connect punters to drivers. We are a small collective of Licensed London Taxi Drivers (anyone want to suggest a collective noun for cabbies? – A whinge?) who have been using Twitter as a means of keeping in touch while we work; updating each other on roadworks, work opportunities and general cabbie chit-chat. Occasional requests to book us have come from followers, so the obvious next step is try and harness the power of Twitter to launch @tweetalondoncab. At present we are quite a small group of drivers, so we are trying to start slowly, test out how this will all work, and see where it takes us.”
Although given the small size of the group (about 30 drivers), there’s no guarantee that they’ll be able to help you out when you’re stranded outside a busy nightclub in the small hours of Saturday night. [Update: Richard Cudlip has been in touch to say that there are now more than 60 tweeting cabbies in London - not all involved with TLC through]
BUT it’s also not hard to see how this idea could be expanded – not just with taxis but with almost any time-relevant service. TweetAPlumber or TweetATakeAway perhaps?
Site: twitter.com/tweetalondoncab
Inspired by a post from Mark Shaw
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