Obama encouraging agency tweeting

Obama's Open Government Directive, due in May, to encourage agency tweets.

Twitter is taking flight in unlikely skies: the U.S. federal government.
From NASA to the General Services Administration, more federal agencies are embracing Twitter as another Web-based channel to communicate news and engage in conversations with U.S. citizens (10 Twitter tips from early federal adopters).

NASA announced Monday that astronaut Mike Massimino would use Twitter to provide a personal behind-the-scenes peek at his last few weeks of training before embarking on a space shuttle mission. In the first 48 hours of Astro_Mike tweets, Massimino attracted more than 14,000 followers on Twitter.

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