Hurricane Irene Twitter Updates (Live)

Following Hurricane Irene on Twitter

In updating family, friends and total strangers about their experience with Hurricane Irene, many are taking the path of least resistance: Twitter. We've organized some popular Hurricane Irene-related hashtags and queries, which you can see below.

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Hurricane Irene as Seen from the ISS

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Just don't tweet @Irene; she's an actual person. Use #Irene instead.

• Hurricane Irene Photos & Video
• National Weather Service: Hurricane Irene
• Hurricane Irene Storm Tracker

Relevant hashtags are very important. For example, it would have helped if Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker used #Irene when telling us that New Jersey Transit rail service was shutting down imminently.