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Sunday, March 21, 2010

New York food vendors turn to Twitter

New York: Whether it's fomenting anarchy or cogent bodies what you had for breakfast microblogging account Twitter seems to accept it all.Now, New York City's active adaptable aliment vendors are application the burning messaging website to advice their hoards of athirst followers break acquainted to their favourite delicacies.Kim Ima, buyer of the Treats Truck, which serves up caramel creme sandwiches, amoroso accolade with icing, and added diet busting delights, uses Twitter to break in blow with her 3,000 fans.

"For addition like Kim with St. Patrick's Day Parade on Wednesday, she wasn't abiding if she was activity to esplanade here. So with Twitter she was able to accommodate area updates and we knew area to acquisition her," said chump EJ Cory.

There are about 3,000 accountant aliment automat trucks in New York City, according The Street Vendor Project, apery a ample alcove for Twitter.Kenny Lao parks his Rickshaw Dumpling barter abutting to the Treats Barter best Fridays. He has been tweeting back his barter aboriginal hit the streets for business and says Twitter is an ideal apparatus to accumulate in blow with his 5,000 followers.

"People absolutely depend on us to be at assertive locations on every day of the anniversary and they get super-duper aflame for dumpling day and this is the best way for us to acquaint them," he said.

Twitter, founded in 2006, is chargeless for its millions of users and its founders are still aggravating to about-face the loss-making action into a banknote cow.Last year Twitter hit the account for the role it played in allowance demonstrators in Iran adapt anti-government protests. The White House abundantly asked Twitter to adjournment appointed aliment during the protests so demonstrators could break connected.

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