Disney fans are everywhere. No, she wasn’t driving the SUV that struck the Monorail support pillar, but Amanda Tinney (of DisneyEveryDay.com) was on the scene yesterday in the EPCOT Parking lot and took the above photo on her mobile phone. Those beams are pretty strong,… Read More »SUV strikes Monorail Pillar closes EPCOT loop for an hour
Twitter just launched a new service called @EarlyBird. It’s basically a channel that will alert followers to special deals. The first deal just happens to be special two for one tickets to Disney’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice via Fandango. Act soon as this is a limited time offer.
More on EarlyBird below the jump:
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Here’s an interesting footnote for Disney history, the first ever promoted Trending Topic on the popular Twitter.com microblogging service was advertising Pixar’s much anticipated Toy Story 3 film. If you log onto the web service and look in the right hand column you’ll see that… Read More »Pixar buys first ever ‘promoted’ Trending Topic on Twitter
Cheri Thomas was an early adopter of Twitter. She’s also a fan of the Walt Disney Company, so when she saw that the @Disney handle was available, she took it, and thousands of Disney fans, myself included, have been jealous ever since. A few days… Read More »Twitter takes Disney handle away from user
Chad Emerson was kind enough to provide The Disney Blog a copy of his book, “Project Future”, which I just reviewed here, to give away. I also have a copy of Kevin Yee’s ‘101 things you never knew about Walt Disney World‘ hanging around. So… Read More »Project Future Giveaway
Twitter has named Ali Rowghani, the finance chief at Pixar Animation Studios, to be their new CFO beginning in March. It’s going to be important for Twitter to start making some magic happen with an actual revenue stream, so hopefully Rowghani can make that happen… Read More »Twitter names Pixar executive new CFO
Today marks the third crop of Disney World Moms debut into the world of answering the questions of other theme park guests and vacation planners. If they’re anything like the first two it should be another bang up year. I like when Disney uses social media in new and interesting ways and this certainly qualifies. Especially when the wdw moms take it to other channels (like twitter and facebook).
One thing Disney has done differently this year, however, is to have some of the moms on a part time basis. That means they currently have around 40 people answering questions now, including more men than ever before (I count 5 on the list).
Of course, The Disney Blog’s own Oh Amanda is on the panel this year. Hopefully we’ll hear reports on her experience from time to time/
The full press release is below the jump:
It was high drama on the high seas last night as the Disney Wonder rescued a guest who fell off the Carnival Cruise Line ship the Sensation. At the completion of its trip, the Carnival Sensation was heading into Port Canaveral when the man fell off the ship somehow. He treaded water for about an hour until the Disney Wonder, also heading into the port, found and rescued him. His condition is reported to be okay.
How do we know this? A Disney Wonder guest twittered the whole thing. I’ve included a jpg of the tweets below from user BigHeadDennis.
I wonder if this is the first time a rescue like this has been twittered.
Transcript is below the jump:
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