We want to make your travel to the Inauguration as smooth as possible. In addition to all the great information put out by the various government agencies (see here) and traditional news media (see here), we're BETA testing using Twitter to see if people participating in the event can also provide real-time, user-generated content that is useful to people attending the events.
Here's two ways to use Twitter to follow us on January 20th:
- Go to http://www.twitter.com/carfreejan20 and follow the action there - you do not have to be a member of Twitter to do this.
- Join Twitter and make an account. You can make a Twitter account in less than a minute and it is free! Once you make an account, click "follow" and turn on text updates. This will allow you to get up to the minute updates on the best travel options at that particular time.
What are the updates going to be about?
- Leading up to the inauguration, we will consolidate all the information on the Internet and send you what is relevant in terms of travel, so there will be links to important articles.
- On the big day, the information on our CarFreeJan20 page and the text updates to your phone will pulled from the most relevant information we're getting from our Twitter volunteers (we are still looking for an additional 50 people) in the field attending the event. We also will be pulling information from main stream media and other governments in the dc/metro area and relaying out to the Twitter community.
Our goal is to become a hub for real-time travel updates and assist as many people that we can!
More Inaugural transportation can be found here on CommuterPage.com's special Car-Free Inaugural page. Twitter explanined on Wikipedia.
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Shane McCarty and Brandon Carroll are ACCS Interns from Virginia Tech. Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/brandonjcarroll and http://www.twitter.com/shanemccarty.
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