It’s pretty amazing that Pinterest is valued at 3.8 billion dollars, even though it has no revenue. 
But that hasn’t stopped the popular image-driven site from expanding its reach into travel.  

The company, started in 2009, has more traffic from its mobile applications than its website, and co- founder Evan Sharp went so far as to say Pinterest is "probably the last big website...the last start up to become high-profile on the web.”



With the…

Anatomy of a Twitter Suspension



So it begins innocently enough.



I Try to send a Tweet from an active, important  account I manage. The Tweet doesn’t send.



Error Message: “There was an error sending…please select the Social Network and try again.”



So  I try,  and try again.



Then it slowly dawns on…

Too much visual information and not enough solid, reliable , trustworthy facts?

Not enough education and awareness building by luxury travel marketers?



Misidentification of the luxury traveler?



You'd think that the "rich and famous" would naturally be drawn to top hotel brands, names synonymous with luxury like the Ritz-Carlton…

Someone in my home feed on Twitter only posted the number of followers he/she gained. And the number of followers he/she lost. Every day



"Today I lost 5 Followers and gained 3."

"Today I lost 1 Follower and gained 0."

And so it went.

The steady drumbeat of the daily report fascinated me: I wanted to know why these followers came on board or…