Tarra Quismundo of the Philippine Daily Inquirer reports that the United States embassy in Manila has suspended its Twitter account, @usembassymanila, following the partial government shutdown in the US.
The report explained that the embassy "redirected its followers to the Twitter account of its home agency, the US Department of State (@StateDept)" in its last tweet posted on Friday, October 4. "Due to the lapse in appropriations, this twitter feed will not be updated regularly. Please visit @StateDept for updates," the embassy said.
The US government has partially shut down beginning October 1 after the US congress failed to pass a new budget for the new fiscal year. "The shutdown has furloughed nearly a million American government workers and forced the closure of national parks, veterans' offices and Nasa operations," the article said.
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