STORM2K

its a great community to share real-time info! going to be very cool come june 1.

bsuwx= @alexanderhall

yay!! about time someone figured out something

lurkey wrote:yay!! about time someone figured out something

Jesus...Guess I have to do this now....Darn lurkey always gets her way...LOL

bsuwx wrote:its a great community to share real-time info! going to be very cool come june 1.

bsuwx= @alexanderhall

some more details, please?

is this what you are talking about?

I admit that I'm pretty unfamiliar with Twitter. I guess you could call me Twitter-illiterate. Anyway, who started this?

hey! sorry for the confusion yes i saw that user 'storm2k' but i'm not sure he has anything to do with weather

if you don't have a twitter account, you can get one quick @ http://twitter.com

the quick definition of twitter: a community of 'status updates' that uses txt and the web to keep 'followers' updated on your current whereabouts/thoughts/etc

i frequently use twitter as a source for severe weather information, and i'm excited to see how that will translate to hurricane season. i follow these accounts and have their updates sent directly to my cell:

twitter.com/stormreports (another way to say this would be @stormreports, just some twitter lingo for you )
twitter.com/weatherwatches
twitter.com/tornadoalert

i also follow @quakeinfo , @seismicevents, @healthmap, and @hurricanes (which hasn't been too active yet)

it has turned out to be a really great source for disaster-related real-time info. i also update sometimes with observations and weather info too. (http://twitter.com/alexanderhall) i thought if anyone else in the community was on twitter, it would be especially fun to follow them during hurricane season. (giving us live updates on conditions, what the local media is saying, etc)

check out some of these pages and see what you think! feel free to follow me as well. its definitely a site worth exploring.
if you have more specific ?s let me know!

alex

Also, if you can go to http://www.search.twitter.com enter name of hurricane and it will provide real time tweets for the hurricanes as they occur this season.

for those, like me and prefer search in twitter apps, you can use Tweetdeck, twhirl, and tweetie (Mac and iphone/touch only) to provide update tweets on hurricanes ..


I have reserved a twitter name for Storm2K in case the admins and mods decide they want a twitter account. I have pmed SG with the info.

I will post my weather links for twitter later on. .. sorta have to get back to work

Hurricane Twitter links:

http://twitter.com/StormTrack

http://twitter.com/hurricanetrack

http://twitter.com/hurricanes

http://twitter.com/atlanticwatch

http://twitter.com/StormWire

http://twitter.com/HurricaneAlerts



Other Weather Links:

http://twitter.com/TornadoAlert

http://twitter.com/WeatherWarrior1

http://twitter.com/severestudios

http://twitter.com/TWCi

http://twitter.com/TWCweather

http://twitter.com/chasertv


Gov't and Non-gov't agencies:

http://twitter.com/femainfocus FEMA

http://twitter.com/CDCemergency CDC

http://twitter.com/NSF NSF

http://twitter.com/RedCross

I have a twitter account (under Fact789 as well). This will be my first hurricane season using Twitter as a tool, but I expect it to be an amazing resource.

great point about using search.twitter.com and tweet deck. they will be very powerful tools!

i got a couple storm 2k people follows today! awesome

bsuwx wrote:great point about using search.twitter.com and tweet deck. they will be very powerful tools!

i got a couple storm 2k people follows today! awesome

do you have windows or mac?, b/c if you have mac -- tweetie is way better than tweetdeck. I have been using tweetie for twitter and search and twhirl for friendsfeed (don't ask sg, you think I confused you with twitter, you don't want me to start with friendsfeed . . )

What is tweetdeck?

fact, im using tweetdeck (on a pc) but yes i've heard of different programs for apple.

basically these programs allow for a couple different ways to explore twitter data, searches, profiles all on one interface on your desktop. its kinda handy, i'm just getting the hang of it.

one thing that i've found interesting about tweetdeck is you can monitor in real-time the appearance of and {several at once, actually} terms, phrases, words, and hashtags on twitter.

for example, right now, i'm watching all the tweets that come in referencing 'chicago' , 'swine flu' and '#tornado'

during a hurricane event - you would monitor 'hurricane' 'storm' 'ike' (whatever the storm name is) etc etc and get some amazing results

You know you are old when you only wish you knew how to twitter

j wrote:You know you are old when you only wish you knew how to twitter

You know that twitter isn't cool anymore when your mother asks you about twitter. . . thank goodness she hasn't ask me set her up an account ..

j wrote:You know you are old when you only wish you knew how to twitter

If we're patient, something new will come along and people will ask - hey, remember twitter? LOL

(and now I sound like my parents....LOL)

Miss Mary wrote:

j wrote:You know you are old when you only wish you knew how to twitter

If we're patient, something new will come along and people will ask - hey, remember twitter? LOL

(and now I sound like my parents....LOL)

Yea, remember myspace? lol

Senorpepr has made it to Twitter.

So far I've been posting tidbits on active tropical cyclones and whatnot.

http://twitter.com/senorpepr

Nobody's mentioned it thus far, but...
http://twitter.com/storm2k_org

senorpepr wrote:Senorpepr has made it to Twitter.

So far I've been posting tidbits on active tropical cyclones and whatnot.

http://twitter.com/senorpepr

Nobody's mentioned it thus far, but...
http://twitter.com/storm2k_org

http://www.twitter.com/wxraleigh Weather conditions for Raleigh NC
http://www.twitter.com/wxdurham weather conditions for Durham NC

and thnx to lester88 fo the rss feed for weather alerts/warnings