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NWS and Twitter
1. 2011 Georgia Emergency Management Summit and Training Session Twitter and the National Weather Service By Tim Brice WFO El Paso May 25 th , 2011
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3. What is Twitter? According to Twitter , Twitter is: “ without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.” Perhaps a less biased description of 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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11. NWS 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.
12. What do the tweeters do? http://weather.gov/stormreports (public information page)