Now I love the Great British climate. It surprises us, it confounds us, it bores us… let’s just say it’s temperate… One aspect of weather, that I’m sure my fellow Savvy colleagues will confirm, is my obsession with snow. Like food and gadgets, I can’t get enough of it.
It’s my 5 year anniversary of being on Twitter in April, and I have to say one of the best uses I’ve seen using the ‘Micro-blogging’ medium is uksnowmap.com. Sponsored by Vodafone Sure Signal, it’s a simple site that searches Twitter for real-time snow reports and displays them on a map of the UK. Tweet the hashtag #uksnow, your location (postcode, town name or geotag your tweet), and rate the snow that is falling out of ten (0/10 for nothing – 10/10 for a blizzard). It’s a real testament to the power crowd sourced knowledge, much more current and engaging than any weather report I’ve ever seen. Check it out at www.uksnowmap.com.