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What's your best tweet?
Tweets that contain information on impending dangerous weather. Have a lot of them.
What are six things you could never do without?
Wife, Dogs, Storm chasing, Sports, Seasonal Weather, Snow
How do you use Twitter in your professional life?
Use it to run Delaware County, Indiana Skywarn to get out warning information to the people of Delaware County.
What's your favorite Twitter app?
Twitter or Facebook?
What was the funniest trend you've seen?
Very odd tweets having to do with specific people.
What feature should Twitter add?
Who do you wish had a Twitter feed but doesn't?
What are some words or phrases you refuse to shorten for brevity?
Most. I usually use something that allows me to send longer tweets.
Is there someone you want to follow you who doesn't already? If so, who?
No I don't want to force anyone to follow me like some people do.
Have you ever unfollowed someone? Who and why?
Yes if they are offensive and or tweet spam.
Why should we vote for you?
Love to talk about weather and help run the local Skywarn @W9ECI account to get warning information out to locals.
Terms you wish would start trending on Twitter right now?
What's the most interesting connection you've made through Twitter?
Communicating with local news personalities. Try to help them get info from the field they can't always get.
Hashtag you created that you wish everyone used?
None that I know of.
How do you make your tweets unique?
I don't keep them simple and talk about mostly weather.
What inspires you to tweet?
My passion of weather and to help people.
Ever get called out for tweeting too much?
140 characters of advice for a new user?
Use it for useful things. Weather and breaking news. Most of the time you will find out faster on twitter than you will watching any station.
How long can you go without a tweet?
What question are we not asking here that we should?
What is the best use for twitter?
How do you imagine Twitter changing?
More people will migrate from Facebook to twitter. Twitter is very powerful as you can see in other countries.
Who do you admire most for his or her use of Twitter?
To many to name. All of my weather friends are doing their thing and getting weather information out to the public.
Who is the funniest person on Twitter that you follow?
What is one of the biggest misconceptions of Twitter?
That it is useless and only kids use it. For news and weather I think it is one of the great new tools to get information out.
Why should people follow you?
To stay up to date with the latest weather. Also love to educate people about the topic and help them learn.
Can you name some one-of-a-kind Twitter accounts that you follow?
@BigJoeBastardi for some great climate info
How do you decide what to tweet?
Focused on mostly weather. Sometimes sports will jump in here and there as well.
Why'd you start tweeting?
Getting weather information out to the public.
Has Twitter changed your life? If yes, how?
Yes by allowing me to be among a group of great forecasters. This allows all of us to learn new things all the time from each other.
What do you wish people would do more of on Twitter?
Keep it useful and not as much nonsense and offending trending topics.
How will the world change in the next year?
Hopefully for the better.
What are some big Twitter faux pas?
What will the world be like 10 years from now?
Much different. More self sustainable than we are now.

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