Here’s details of a interesting social media integration for real-time weather alerts and updates driven by the NWS. Enter a new Twitter storm reporting program
Read Write Web describes how the app works:
According to the program’s documentation, a system monitors Twitter for tweets starting with the hashtag #wxreport. These tweets are then plotted on a Google map using the tweet’s geolocation information, or in cases where the geotag data is not available, an approximation of the reporter’s location within the tweet using the format WW [location] WW. Finally, the report is relayed to the appropriate NWS field office for use by the office’s meteorologists in a variety of ways, including possible inclusion in an official storm report.
To add your weather updates simply Tweet (with location tagging enabled in your client) using the hashtag #wxreport