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You can get our weather alerts delivered to your cell phone for free, even if it’s not a BlackBerry or an iPhone.  It doesn’t matter if you own a Nokia N95 or you are working with Windows Mobile, there is an app available for you, and the longest part of the process should be waiting for the app to download. There are even apps available for the Palm OS.

To have our weather alerts delivered to your mobile phone, just follow these very simple steps:

1. Get a free Twitter account here. If you do not wish to interact with other Twitter users just set your account to private.

2. To then select which city or state you wish to receive weather alerts for, simply visit our main site, click on the Twitter menu button, and follow the simple steps to select your location. Once you are viewing the correct city or state profile on Twitter, just click on the follow button at the top of the page. (If you travel anywhere in the U.S. just return to our main site to add your new locations.) You are now finished with the Twitter side of setup.

3. Visit either this page or this one, and follow the links to the appropriate Twitter app for your cell phone. Download and install the app on your phone and then follow all prompts. Once you are signed in to your Twitter account, your weather alerts should load up immediately.

While we have not yet tested each and every app available for all available cell phones, we can tell you that the majority of the apps available are free, so if you do not find the first app you download to your liking, simply delete it and try another program.

Last but not least, AOL’s instant messenger service now allows you to receive our weather warnings and observations. Oddly enough AIM seems to have the best integration with Twitter we have seen so far. With MySpace and Facebook, you can easily check your weather alerts online, but you currently have to use your Twitter account to track your weather alerts by phone. Not so with AIM, and you can choose to receive your alerts by cell phone through your Twitter account, or directly through AIM’s mobile program.

To have our weather alerts switched over to your AIM account, just follow these very simple steps:

1. Get a free Twitter account here. If you do not wish to interact with other Twitter users, just set your account to private.

2. To then select which city or state you wish to receive weather alerts for, simply visit our main site, click on the Twitter menu button, and follow the simple steps to select your location. Once you are viewing the correct city or state profile on Twitter, just click on the follow button at the top of the page. (If you travel anywhere in the U.S. just visit our main site to add your new locations.) You are now finished with the Twitter side of setup.

3. Go into your Life Stream settings on your AIM phone app or on the web and you will see “services recommended for you”. Click on “add Twitter” and follow the prompts.

4. Once completed, you can check your weather alerts anytime you want by opening either your mobile or web AIM app and simply click on “Lifestream”.

We hope that both Facebook and MySpace will both soon follow the example of AIM and make integration with Twitter just as simple and quick as AIM.

If you have a FaceBook account you can now have the very same weather alerts and observations available to Twitter users delivered to your FaceBook account for free. This means you can get our severe weather updates while you are utilizing FaceBook on the web, or by using your cell phone .  It is actually a pretty simple process with a variety of delivery options to choose from.

To have our weather alerts switched over to your Facebook account, just follow these very simple steps:

First you must obtain a Twitter account here, and it will take you less than five minutes to set up and it is completely free. If you are one of those people who has no desire to socially interact with other Twitter users, just set your Twitter account to private, and you will just receive our weather updates for as long as you choose not to follow anyone else on Twitter.

To then select which city or state you wish to receive weather alerts for, simply visit our main site, click on the Twitter menu button, and follow the simple steps to select your location. Once you are viewing the correct city or state profile on Twitter, just click on the follow button at the top of the page. (If you travel anywhere in the U.S. just visit our main site to add your new locations.) You are now finished with the Twitter side of setup.

Now go to your Facebook account and follow these very easy steps. Make certain you follow “Step 4” to the letter and check all of the boxes shown in this section. Once you have finished with these steps you can access our severe weather updates by selecting your Twitter app from your FaceBook Menu.

To get weather updates delivered to your phone, you now have several choices.  Click here to learn how to get your weather alerts using your Twitter account with your phone.

To simply add a widget to your FaceBook Account follow these steps after you have obtained a Twitter account.

Special thanks to everyone on the platform teams at both Twitter and FaceBook for making all of this happen, and for making the process as seamless as possible. If that is not enough, we have what may be an even more significant announcement coming within the nest two weeks. This announcement will be posted here, and because of the gravity of this announcement, it will be pushed down through all of our city and state feeds as well.

Stay tuned.

Whew! Twitter just made this announcement yesterday and today we have already run the beta test, and concluded that yes Virginia, you can get our weather alerts on MySpace now. I would first like to thank everyone on the platform teams at both Twitter and MySpace for saving us tons of development time by ramming this through so quickly.

To have our weather alerts switched over to your MySpace account, just follow these very simple steps:

We have tested 2 methods for adding weather alerts to your Myspace profile pages and both appear to work just fine. Both methods require you signing up for a Twitter account which is free and takes less than 5 minutes maximum to set up.  Get your free Twitter account here. Then visit Swas Inc, click on the Twitter menu button, and select your city or state.

Then you can choose either installing a widget on your profile or you can install it as an app from the app library at MySpace. (This is roughly what the app will look like on your profile, although you may wish to customize yours quite differently from the demo shown.) If you set your Twitter account to private and do not follow anyone else, only the weather alerts will appear on your MySpace Twitter app.

If you decide to keep your Twitter account public, which requires no changes to your Twitter settings, you will receive your weather alerts mixed in with the rest of the tweets from your followers. We are working on developing a method of getting weather alerts to MySpace users that does not require a Twitter account, but we still think the above methods are preferable as you can have these weather alerts easily delivered to your your mobile phone.

To assure your weather alerts delivered to your mobile phone there is always the SMS capability that Twitter provides or even better, on board apps for your phone.

We will be shortly providing an announcement on the same (sort of) capability for obtaining our weather alerts for FaceBook users after we finish fighting with Facebook’s app controls and consume several dozen aspirin.