After hash tag banking on Twitter with Kotak Mahindra Bank and ICICI Bank, Twitter now wants to provide flight information with its tie up with Jet Airways. The airline will now provide information to users about their flight status and also give them low fares between cities with #JetInstant. Jet Airways is using Twitter application programmers interface (APIs) to integrate flight information on to the site. It's also worth noting that Google earlier last month introduced a new feature which allows users search, compare and book flights via the search engine on desktops, mobiles and tablets. As of now, the tech giant partners Goibibo.com to offer bookings over flight search. How it works You need to follow Jet Airways' official Twitter handle @jetairways and use the hash tag #JetInstant and tweet to the handle to get information which looks something like this: @kwarrier Flight status: @jetairways fltstatus e.g. @jetairways fltstatus 9W60 0701 — Jet Airways (@jetairways) March 4, 2015 @kwarrier Lofares: @jetairways lofares e.g. @jetairways lofares BOM JAI 1502 2102 — Jet Airways (@jetairways) March 4, 2015 Twitter's bid to increase user base Twitter has been trying hard to grow its user base and please its Wall Street investors and has been coming out with new innovations to use the platform. Apart from banking applications mentioned above, we look at some of Twitter's other initiatives to grow its user base: - Twitter is offering Reliance subscribers free access to its platform during the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. While this looks like…
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