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S torm Reports via Twitter Project By Tim Brice WFO El Paso April 29, 2010

S torm Reports via Twitter Project By Tim Brice WFO El Paso April 29, 2010. Overview. Twitter 101 What do the tweeters do? What does the NWS do? How to promote the project New hashtags. What is Twitter?. According to Twitter , Twitter is:

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S torm Reports via Twitter Project By Tim Brice WFO El Paso April 29, 2010

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  1. Storm Reports via Twitter ProjectBy Tim Brice WFO El PasoApril 29, 2010

  2. Overview • Twitter 101 • What do the tweeters do? • What does the NWS do? • How to promote the project • New hashtags

  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

  4. 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

  5. Twitter Demo

  6. Media 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

  7. Storm Reports via Twitter

  8. 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.

  9. What do the tweeters do? http://weather.gov/stormreports (public information page)

  10. What do tweeters do? or Twitter Home page 3rd Party App.

  11. 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.

  12. The 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

  13. What the NWS does http://wwwdev.crh.noaa.gov/epz/twitter/ (for internal NWS use only)

  14. What the NWS does Forecast offices then can access tweets via the webmap interface.

  15. What the NWS does Forecast offices then can access tweets via the webmap interface.

  16. What the NWS does Forecast offices then can access tweets via the webmap interface.

  17. What the NWS does Tweets during the month of April

  18. Good news Publicly accessible page

  19. Good news http://wx411.com/codenoobs/examples/NWSTwitter/

  20. Advantages/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

  21. How to promote • Web page headline • Mention during weathercast • Promote during weather intro or closing. • Twitter account? Tweet about the program.

  22. Twitter Hashtags for wx • #wxreport • #wxob • #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.

  23. Questions??? Public facing twitter information page: http://www.weather.gov/stormreports Internal weather forecast office twitter gathering page: http://wwwdev.crh.noaa.gov/epz/twitter/ 3rd Party page showing the mapped tweets: http://wx411.com/codenoobs/examples/NWSTwitter/ Tim Brice tim.brice@noaa.gov NWS – El Paso TX (575)589-4088

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