With temperatures set to climb into the 30’s this week and more pollution episodes forecast, King’s College London is today launching a new service which provides real time air quality updates and summaries on Twitter.

• twitter.com/_londonairnow provides an hourly update from the London Air Quality Network’s 100+ monitoring stations across London.
• twitter.com/_londonair provides a summary of the previous day’s pollution along with news items.

Twitter has grown hugely over the last two years to become one of the most popular social networking sites with millions of users worldwide. The site is now in the top 40 most visited sites in the UK and has become both an important source of news and a communication tool for users across the globe. You do not need to be a twitter user to view these updates.

This service adds to the LondonAir webpage, RSS feeds and iPhone application as King's continues to broaden the number of ways Londoners can access important air quality information wherever they are.

Item date 30/06/2009