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Foreign ministry spokeswoman Kersti Luha told AFP that the government was using the microblogging service and social networking site to keep Estonians informed about ways to get home overland.

"We've turned our ministry sites at Twitter and Facebook into the main source of help for our passengers trapped all over Europe," Luha said.

"Anyone wishing to return home can look at these sites to see whether there are free seats available at buses or cars coming from where they are to Estonia," she said.

"People can also use our site to share information about free seats in cars and buses themselves," she added.

Estonia and its 1.3 million people is one of the world's most wired nations, earning the nickname "E-Stonia", writes LETA.

Luha said the tweets and Facebook entries were being updated round the clock by Estonian diplomats.

"Lot of Estonians have been trapped in Paris and on Sunday we offered some of them the chance to use an extra bus organised by our embassy there," she said.

Luha said her own family had been snared in the turmoil, after her mother-in-law, who is Colombian, flew to Barcelona to catch a connecting flight to Tallinn but ended up having to catch a bus from the Spanish city to the Czech capital Prague.

"We're just figuring out how to get her closer from Prague now," Luha said.