I was stuck in traffic driving home from Lake Tahoe the other week. I scanned the AM channels for 30 minutes trying to find a traffic report to figure out what

I was stuck in traffic driving home from Lake Tahoe the other week. I scanned the AM channels for 30 minutes trying to find a traffic report to figure out what was going on. Then it hit me, search twitter for "tahoe traffic" and sure enough the first tweet was a report that CHP had stopped traffic due to icy conditions. I got off the highway and took a different way home. Thanks Twitter.