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Realtime commuter-rail updates by realtime commuter-rail users

As he watched the lying message board at his stop on the Franklin Line on Friday, Dave got an idea: A Franklin/Forge Park Line Twitter community so users can post actual information about the status of specific trains. In fact, he set one up, at twitter.com/FranklinLine:

... I know the MBTA is testing a text messaging system for cell phones, but I'm afraid that'll be manned by the same guys who write fiction for the reader boards. I'd much rather get a tweet from a fellow commuter with real information like "Currently under attack by hippogriffs between Franklin and Norfolk; should be moving again soon," or "Wheels have fallen off, have decided to settle in new land of Wall-Powell and raise family here with guy I met on the train." ...

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Can someone please start this for the Framingham/Worcester line too? :-)

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This might be the best use of Twitter I've heard of yet. Honestly it might be the only good use of Twitter but that would sound old and curmudgeonly of me wouldn't it?

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Brilliance, sheer brilliance. I may sign up for Twitter and set one up for the Needham line.

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