Аннотация:The role of transparency and communications in central banking has risen significantly in recent decades. This trend accelerated with the advent of new information technologies, such as web sites and, more recently, social media, which allowed to disseminate information faster and among a larger audience. This paper presents a brief review of how central banks adopted those new communication channels over time. Main social media platforms used by central banks around the world are identified and differences among those platforms are described in terms of their application for different purposes of central banks’ communication policy.