Flakey Tweets

London just got slammed with its heaviest snowfall in 18 years, getting 20cm (8in). And while flinty Mid-western Americans may scoff at any amount less than a foot or so, the English seem to have been driven barmy by it. But several Twitter feeds and mashups showing real-time information about the storm sprouted up. One mashup from Ben Marsh uses postal codes to show location and intensity of the storm in a blizzard of tweets live on a Google Map of the UK.

 

February 2nd, 2009 by Jeff |
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February 2nd, 2009 by Jeff | Filed under Weather, twitter