Twitter user lamp wrote in to our PR contact address to let us know he's planning on keeping us posted during his first ever Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Freedom out of Miami next month.

Mr. Watson says he sets sail on November 12 but he plans on starting his updates one day earlier, on November 11. He'll be using PocketTweets with his 16GB iPod touch and the ship-wide Wi-Fi.

"Wherever I happen to be on the boat, whatever I happen to be doing, I'll send in updates. The itinerary takes me from Miami to Key West to Cozumel, Mexico and back. The Freedom is one of Carnival's newest and biggest ships. There will be LOTS to Twitter about."

Mr. Watson contacted us via email adding, "Just thought I'd let you guys know."

Well, now we know! Bon Voyage, Mr. Watson. We're looking forward to those updates--be sure to send us a photo wearing your Twitter t-shirt and be careful not to fall overboard (there might be sharks).

We had a pretty big earthquake in the Bay Area last night and it was very well Twittered. Read Mad Dog in The Fog's account of using Twitter's track feature to follow the action.

Veronica Belmont shares office space with us here in San Francisco at Twitter World Headquarters. Check out the trailer for Mahalo Daily, her new video podcast which accompanies Mahalo, "the human-powered search engine." The trailer includes special guest Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo. Also, you can follow Veronica and Jason on Twitter.

Apple calls this popular Twitter Web App "The most 'Twitter' like experience you'll find on an iPhone." The killer features? Huge buttons and optimized for EDGE. To try it out, head over to thincloud.com on your iPhone and click the Twitter link.

California Fire Followers Set Twitter Ablaze: "Twitter users Nate Ritter and Viss have been busy posting rapid-fire updates of the current wildfire situation in Southern California. Both of them are on the scene in San Diego, and they are doing an excellent job of providing information and news about evacuations, meeting points and anything important that local residents would need to know."

Back in skinny jeans: Can Twitter help us lose the last 10 pounds?: "I'm going to use Twitter to track my daily going ons on my journey to drop these last 10 pounds. Anyone is welcome to join in and follow me." SkinnyJeans.

What I learned from Twitter today. "This wasn’t a staff development day. It wasn’t a workshop. It wasn’t a conference or even a meeting. This was simply Thursday."

Twitter Track has been tracking concepts, interests, and keywords over SMS and IM for nearly 2 weeks now. One of the most popular keywords being tracked is overheard. It's kinda like Overheard in New York—but global. Some recent matches:

Overheard in the hallway: "hey, we know each other through Twitter!" –Alex de Carvalho

Overheard: "so you know I'm donating my kidney to my sister..." –Chris Wetherell

To track what other people are overhearing, send track overheard to Twitter. Had enough? Send untrack overheard. Have you overheard something you must share with others? Simply include the word overheard in your update and share it with others. What interesting words are you tracking on Twitter?

Tonight we're taking our new Operations Engineer, Jay Edwards out to dinner to welcome him to the Twitter team. Jay moved here from Texas to help us do all the behind-the-scenes stuff that's critical to improving Twitter and growing the service. Yay for Jay!

Some folks have noticed that the 'older' link is missing at the bottom of the timeline—this is not a permanent change. We had to take it out yesterday during a kind of bot-storm because it was negatively affecting site performance during this unusual activity. We're going to get it back in there asap. (We know some people like to catch up on the Web).