It has been suggested to me that twitter is absolutely the newest and best thing to use for marketing a place to stay. I am very unconvinced. Thoughts? Would you?

Your title talks about "finding an accomodation"
Your text talks about "marketing a place to stay"

Which is it?

(Parenthetically, no twitter for me. I've got enough distractions)

I'd use it to find out if anything was going on in the area, but not to find a hotel. Not in 140 byte snippets. Pictures.

Sorry..all new to me with the terms. I have had innkeepers tell me I absolutely need this as everyone will use it. I just don't see it and wanted to ask the experts. Again, an accommodation would be marketing through twitter, travelers would look for accommodations throught twitter...or not. Just asking!

Just as long as you don't market your b and b on fodor's forums, you can do whatever you want.

I don't understand how this would work. You'd sign up for "Innkeeper tweets" and get messages 24 hours a day that say "We have rooms available in East Oshkosh!!" ? why would I want that? I cannot imagine ever voluntarily signing up for something that was planning to spam me. this is not useful. This is like asking me if I would watch a TV channel that was 100% commercials. Why would I do that?

maybe I'm missing the point?

I take back my post. This piqued my interest and I tried twittering hotels. Many, many tweets. I'm going to use Twitter next time I go hotel hunting.

http://webtravelrob.blogspot.com/200...g-twitter.html

http://twitter.com/besthoteldeals

I guess I wouldn't look by description - photos, features, but first by location and price and then I'd go to the hotel's website.

For a hotelier, I think it's worth the effort. It's free and doesn't take much time to open an account and make a couple of tweets a day. Like Shaq says, if you have trouble putting together 140 characters, you shouldn't be tweeting.

Thanks fodorites! Still not convinced but feedback from those in the know is valuable for me! I would never try to advertise here...I know the rules!

Sorry, I have a life, but I'm sure you can reach out to a bunch of people in the 16-25 demographic.

Ironically the ones who are most active in my innkeeping peer group happen to be in the much older age range...40-60's!