LiveScience: As oil continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico from the recent Deepwater Horizon disaster, a number of government agencies have banded together and utilized the power and scope of social media to disseminate accurate, up-to-date information to the general public. On April 20, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, an oil-drilling rig approximately 52 miles off the coast of Venice, La., took the lives of 11 of its 126 crew members. The rig sank two days later, and …