Brooklyn Twitter Guide

If I can tweet, anyone can.

I met up with some travel writers tonight in New York, including Jen Leo -- the editor of the Los Angeles Times' interesting Travel Web Buzz column. In about 20 beer-soaked minutes she gave me a 70-minute lesson in Twitter, and convinced me to get more serious about it. 'I'm a Facebook grouch,' she said happily. 'I don't friend anybody anymore.' Then she paused to 'tweet' me a website she was talking about.

I feel very 21st century all of a sudden.

As part of it, I'm going to try and assemble over the next few weeks a 'TWITTER GUIDEBOOK TO BROOKLYN,' where I'm stationed. Basically this will translate into short reviews of places I like around the country's coolest neighborhood of late.

HOW TO USE THE 'GUIDEBOOK'
Start a Twitter account.

Then hit 'search' at the bottom of the page and hit '#rot_bkln' (for ReidOnTravel_Brooklyn).

Posts will be ordered in reverse chronological order, beginning with most recent. Each post will begin with the neighborhood in question:

• Dwntn (Downtown)
  
• B-Hts (Brooklyn Heights)
  
• BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill & Carroll Gardens)
• RHook (Red Hook)
• ParkSlope
• ProsHts (Prospect Heights)
• FtG (Ft Greene)
  
• Willbg (Williamsburg)
• Grnpt (Greenpoint)
  
• Bush (Bushwick)
  
• Coney (Coney Island)
• BrightB (Brighton Beach)
• etc

I will try to cover a favorite restaurant or two, bar or two, attraction or two of each neighborhood. Then add a hotel or two.

So if you need a Ft Greene bar, you'll need to scroll down to 'FtG' and find a bar mention. (Bad example: I haven't done it yet.)'

We'll see what happens.