At last, Twitter is useful! #UKsnow
My plan was to go to the office in Bracknell this morning, but I was getting horror stories from office colleagues who were abandoning their cars and taking hours to get home. Looking at the BBC website – nothing – no news. What we need is something more immediate, to tell us where the snow has got to, so we can map it. Well its already done.. http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/
Using tweets with #UKsnow and followed by the first 4 digits of your postcode, twitterers can indicate where it’s snowing – in real time, and indicate the severity. Clever Ben Marsh then plots it on a nice google mash up – brilliant.
It would be nice to get some sort of time line to “play-back” what’s happened, so you could guess if its coming your way, and the default “snow” icons are hard to see, but there is a high-vis icon option.
Otherwise, a great idea. I’ve heard similar mashups being used for tracking earthquake effects. At last, someone has found something useful for Twitter 
Oh its snowing in Bristol now.
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