U.S. Government Twitters for Travelers

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  10.15.08 | 10:05 AM ET

imageWe 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.

Related on World Hum:
* State Department Travel Advisories Now Available on Twitter

Photo by Benimoto via Flickr (Creative Commons).


Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."


1 Comment for U.S. Government Twitters for Travelers

The Samsung Handy 11.25.08 | 6:14 AM ET

I’m always using Twitter especially when I travel. I find Twitter very useful because information or updates can spread fast via Twitter. My friends and family are using this, too.

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