METRO NOW ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER

November 17, 2009

METRO is expanding the conversation by adding social media tools Facebook and Twitter to its communication portfolio.

The Web-based communications tools will allow riders to get service alerts, as well as information about other developments at METRO, with a simple click of the mouse or the push of a button on their cell phones or electronic devices.

Follow METRO on Twitter and get real-time short messages, or tweets, about bus or rail service interruptions and changes.

Fan METRO on Facebook and get the digital dialogue started. This social site gives METRO another avenue to quickly share transit news and information about upcoming events with its customers, while giving riders an opportunity to communicate with METRO, too.

The social sites will complement METRO’s current communications efforts, which include the distribution of fliers and brochures on buses and trains, online materials, a monthly newsletter, periodic electronic bulletins, cable-access programming and more.

Fan and follow METRO today, and get connected. 

METRO’s first foray into the social media scene began in January 2007 when it became the first transit agency in the U.S. to launch a blog.