The document discusses using Twitter for situational awareness during weather events. It describes various tools for monitoring tweets, including Advance Twitter Search, Google Realtime, AWIPS Twitter Monitor, LAN Twitter Monitor, GeoChirp, Geo Tweet Monitor, Twitter Trends, and Hootsuite. It provides advantages and disadvantages of each tool. The document also discusses strategies for searching Twitter, such as searching for weather terms, impacts, hashtags, locations and reliable tweeters. It emphasizes getting to know the local Twitter community.