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# What's Going On With Twitter and #uksnow?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/12/whats_going_on_with_twitter_and_uksnow/
- Published: 2009-12-16T12:30:18.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:43:49.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: #uksnow, maps, mashups, snow, X (Twitter), weather

Snow has come to London:

Those of you on Twitter may be seeing tweets like this in your stream:

\> #uksnow SM2 4/10 

What the heck’s that all about? Simple. It’s a crowd-sourced method of tracking snow levels across the country that came into its own \[back in February\](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/02/london\_snow\_twittering\_news.html), when the really heavy snows hit. All those tweets are being \[compiled onto a map\](http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/) to give a visual and rapidly-updated picture of what the snowfall across the country looks like. Neat, huh?

\[!\[The #uksnow map\](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/12/uksnowmap-thumb-480x243-1542.png?resize=480%2C243)\](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/12/uksnowmap.png)

So that tweet is made up of:

1\. #uksnow – the hashtag that allows identification of relevant tweets 2\. SM2 – the first half of my postcode, allowing geolocation of the information 3\. 4/10 – a measure of the heaviness of the snowfall, where 0 is none at all and 10 would be a whiteout… 

A neat little mash-up by \[Ben Marsh\](http://twitter.com/benmarsh).