Arlington Alert on Twitter
In the past week I’ve really taken a shining to Twitter. I posted about its value the other day in a reflection on my social life and used it today a bit to track the crazy storm (complete with tornadoes within the beltway) that came through the DC metro area.
I got an idea from a tweet (the proper name for a “post” on Twitter) that a friend of mine wrote in which he mentioned a service called Arlington Alert which sends you a text message or email when there are disastrous things going on in the area and I thought, “I wonder if they have a Twitter account to follow.”
They didn’t.
Honestly, I can’t complain. I live in a city that has updates for alerts that can go out through SMS (text messages), email and RSS Feeds… RSS feeds huh?! That’s when the idea hit me. I can create an account for Arlington Alert on Twitter and run it off the RSS feed that they provide.
And, here it is:
Enjoy.
