U.S. Government Twitters for Travelers

We were pretty impressed after learning that the State Department had embraced using Twitter and its pithy 140-character messages to issue travel warnings. Now it appears the trend is spreading among U.S. government agencies. The Silicon Alley Insider gives seven U.S. government agencies props for employing Twitter as a way to disseminate information quickly.

Among the agencies supplying useful tweets to travelers: Peace Corps and Transportation Security Administration. Homeland Security’s got a Twitter feed, as well, but the Insider says the agency is better off without it.

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* State Department Travel Advisories Now Available on Twitter

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