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Social Media & the NWS Pat Spoden, Chris Noles & Christine Wielgos
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Why That is the way the world is moving –More information from many sources –We need to reach more people Twitter – 175 Million registered users (last Sep) Facebook – 500 Million users (150 M in U.S.)
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Why A group in Evansville started #tristatewx Monitoring this group during snowstorms earlier this year gave us a lot of information. –Reduced our need to call into the area to get information
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Quality Questions Since these are public postings, they are self-correcting. People want to be followed and respected. Bad reports will hurt your integrity, thus followers. This is different than someone calling our office with a bad report – no repercussion
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Expansion We have expanded this to: –#nwspah –Plus another reserved for spotters Results –Over 60 tweets with just rain (March 14) –Hundreds with snow
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Waiting to see… How this will work with severe (or near severe) weather –Public usually does not know severe criteria Still expect many more reports than we currently receive
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Future NWS PAH Facebook by the end of April? –Some folks monitor Facebook through their own account. –Continue to monitor Twitter Will we have our own “tweets”?
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