Too busy fleeing from a hurricane to decide which evacuation route to take in Mississippi? You may want to check your cell phone or laptop for a tweet.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation will use the micro-blogging platform Twitter.com to relay information to evacuees during the upcoming hurricane season. Twitter allows users to post 140 characters that can be viewed by anyone with Internet access.

The tweets — Twitter posts — can be sent or received on either a computer or cell phone.

MDOT has created six separate Twitter feeds to provide route-specific traffic information to evacuees traveling on Interstates 10, 20, 55, 59 and U.S. Highways 49 and 98.

MDOT Twitter feeds:

www.twitter.com/mdot—i55

www.twitter.com/mdot—i59

www.twitter.com/mdot—us49

www.twitter.com/mdot—us98

www.twitter.com/mdot—i10

www.twitter.com/mdot—i20

On the Net:

MDOT, http://www.gomdot.com