As we approach another winter in the usually-mild Pacific Northwest, it’s time to explain #pdxtst.
#pdxtst is a Twitter hashtag that stands for the Portland Twitter! Storm! Team!
Those exclamation points are important, because we’re actually making fun of the overreactions by local mainstream news media. I explain it further in this video recorded in early 2009:
I don’t recall if it was myself or Kelly Guimont (@verso) who first used the hashtag. The part that I love is that now all of the mainstream media folks now use the hashtag for local weather coverage. New media is fun!
I actually supervised Dave Salesky’s first #pdxtst tweet. My finest moment was when during one of these bad weather spells (I don’t recall if it was last year or the year before) the @oregonian account tweeted a reply to someone’s weather report, telling them to add #pdxtst to it.
That is indeed my favorite part as well – social media bubbles up!
Fun! :)
Thank! You! For! This! Valuable! Service!
Awesome. I didn’t know about this until know. Thanks, Aaron!
Colby
This is so cool! I was going to ask what #pdxtst stood for and then saw your tweet leading me to this post. How fun that you have shaped the reporting of the entire Portland Media on storms! However, #sylvanwatch might have been good too! (Just joking…)
Very informative, thanks! I couldn’t figure out what the TST part meant!!!