storm reports via twitter project by tim brice wfo el paso april 29, 2010
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SStorm Reports via Twitter Projecttorm Reports via Twitter Project
By Tim Brice By Tim Brice WFO El PasoWFO El PasoApril 29, 2010April 29, 2010
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OverviewOverview
• Twitter 101
• What do the tweeters do?
• What does the NWS do?
• How to promote the project
• New hashtags
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What is Twitter?What is Twitter?
According to According to TwitterTwitter, Twitter is:, Twitter is:
““without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.”
Perhaps a less biased description of Perhaps a less biased description of Twitter would:Twitter would:
“Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.” - Wikipedia
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What is a Tweet?What is a Tweet?
It is a 140 character (or less) message that a user (tweeter) sends out that is posted on their Twitter home page and also sent to the tweeter’s subscribers called followers?
Tweets can include:• A simple text message• Links to a picture• Links to a web page
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Twitter Demo
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Media and TwitterMedia and Twitter
• Directly communicate with public• Tweet forecasts• Tweet storm tracks/watch/warning info• Advertise your weather cast• Helps to stay in contact with EM’s/NWS• Tweet weather facts• Answer weather questions• Receive weather reports from the public
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Storm Reports via Twitter
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NWS and TwitterNWS and Twitter
The National Weather Service wants to tap into this army of weather
enthusiasts (trained and untrained) who use Twitter and give them a quick easy way to transmit their
weather reports.
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What do the tweeters do?What do the tweeters do?
http://weather.gov/stormreports (public information page)
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What do tweeters do?What do tweeters do?
or
3rd Party App. Twitter Home page
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What do tweeters do?What do tweeters do?If geotagging* is enabled:
• Insert the hashtag (keyword) #wxreport
• Enter your weather tweet
It should look like: #wxreport golf ball size hail at my house.
* Be sure geotagging is turn on for both your twitter account and on the 3rd party app.
If geotagging is NOT enabled:
• Insert the hashtag (keyword) #wxreport
• Insert WW <your location> WW
• Enter your weather tweet
It should look like: #wxreport WW Fort Worth, TX WW golf ball size hail at my house.
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The advantages of TwitterThe advantages of Twitter
• Large user database• 100 million users around the world.• 25+ million users in the U.S.
• Rich flexible Application Programming Interface (API)
• Easy to search tweets and get results
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What the NWS doesWhat the NWS does
http://wwwdev.crh.noaa.gov/epz/twitter/(for internal NWS use only)
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What the NWS doesWhat the NWS does
Forecast offices then can access tweets via the webmap interface.
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What the NWS doesWhat the NWS does
Forecast offices then can access tweets via the webmap interface.
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What the NWS doesWhat the NWS does
Forecast offices then can access tweets via the webmap interface.
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What the NWS doesWhat the NWS does
Tweets during the month of April
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Good newsGood news
Publicly accessible page
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Good newsGood news
http://wx411.com/codenoobs/examples/NWSTwitter/
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Advantages/DisadvantagesAdvantages/Disadvantages
Advantages:
• Potential to receive hundreds of weather tweets
• You can monitor the tweets yourself
• Real time feedback for ongoing weather
• Reports and pictures and videos, oh my!
Disadvantages: • Lots of junk and spam tweets and incorrect observations
• Some tweeters are not following the specific format
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How to promoteHow to promote
• Web page headline
• Mention during weathercast
• Promote during weather intro or closing.
• Twitter account? Tweet about the program.
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Twitter Hashtags for wxTwitter Hashtags for wx1. #wxreport 2. #wxob 3. #STwx (where "ST" is your state two letter id)
For the #wxreport, it would cover significant weather the tweeter actually saw and would include: tornado, hail, snow greater than an inch, dense fog and dust, floods, strong winds etc.
For the #wxob, it would cover weather observed that was not significant and would include: standard weather obs, non-significant weather etc.
For the #STwx, it would cover weather information that would be useful to the public and would include: reported storm tracks, reported storm damages, road closures, watch and warning information etc.
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Tim BriceTim Brice
[email protected]@noaa.gov
NWS – El Paso TXNWS – El Paso TX
(575)589-4088(575)589-4088
Public facing twitter information page:Public facing twitter information page:http://www.weather.gov/stormreportshttp://www.weather.gov/stormreports
Internal weather forecast office twitter gathering page:Internal weather forecast office twitter gathering page:http://wwwdev.crh.noaa.gov/epz/twitter/http://wwwdev.crh.noaa.gov/epz/twitter/
3rd Party page showing the mapped tweets:http://wx411.com/codenoobs/examples/NWSTwitter/
Questions???Questions???