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Twitter is a great source of information; when there's a tornado warning I keep a close eye on #gawx (substitute first 2 letters for your own state). That ends up producing a feed of info from meteorologists and amateur spotters with a mix of official reports, amateur info, photos, radar pics, etc. Often any photo or video will have comments from TV stations asking for permission to rebroadcast.

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For me twitter is a terrible source of information because there is just too much noise. I rarely read anything on Twitter anymore

There's people who do this as a job/hobby. I don't mean following some random people. We live in SoCal and follow VCScanner, he has up to date info about fires, and is the whole reason we were already leaving our city when the firefighters were driving in to let people know to evacuate.

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