Get Accommodation From Twitter Users Around The World

Guest blogger Ilaria at TwiTip writes about how she used her network of Twitter contacts for a real-world benefit: inviting people to stay with her in New York and (in return) making new friends from around the world (and lining up possible holiday visits for the future). The post also runs over some of the trust issues involved in this kind of arrangement, with a useful reminder that electronic communication shouldn’t automatically equate to massive paranoia:

The truth is that at some point we just have to decide to trust people. And this goes for people we know in the flesh and people we meet online.