Travel Web site tweets deals

For those who want immediate airfare updates on flights out of Kansas City, FareCompare.com has a service for you.

You can now get tweets when there is any change in ticket prices on flights out of KCI at http://www.twitter.com/flyfromMKC.

Rick Seaney, FareCompare's CEO, said the feature provided through Twitter.com is the culmination of years of trying to merge real-time technology with bargaining-hunting for airfares.

"This allows you to do in 10 seconds what it used to take an hour on the Internet scouring for deals on travel websites," he said. "Our goal was to save people money and time."

Those with a profile page on Twitter can get immediate price changes on airfares from more than 170 U.S. and Canadian airports. For other cities, travelers can check http://www.farecompare.com/twitter.

To add the Kansas City content to your Twitter timeline, go to the above link.