by Brian Solis
Twitter tools and services are hitting the market faster than they can be acquired, but that’s just a given for one of the hottest social tools to hit the Web.
Introducing TwitterLocal, an interesting new Twitter service brought to you by Matt King.
TwitterLocal essentially allows you to focus on Twitter voices within a specific region (from 1 to 50 miles around any given zip code or city).
It generates a URL and RSS or XML feeds to filter geographically based Tweets. The feeds are viewable in any RSS reader.
You can also download a desktop Adobe Air version of TwitterLocal to track Tweets from your desktop. The app also allows you to see friends and replies and also send updates.
Download here.
TwitterLocal is useful for a number of reasons. For example, I’m going to be in Los Angeles next week and I want to listen to interesting people within the area I’m going to visit as a way of potentially meeting new contacts. From a marketing perspective, I could also channel an instant focus group based on geographic location. Or, since I enjoy staying connected to local influencers and events, I can keep a pulse on everything happening near me, as it happens.
Give it a “thwirl,” I think you’ll like it!
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Discussion
Despite Twitter’s indisputable popularity, I’m not sure that TwitterLocal will be immensely popular. There have been a slew of instant message applications in the past which have connected IMers to nearby IMers and they all pretty much died. Not to mention, applications such as Loopt and Whirrl could be better alternatives.
Anyway, just throwing that out there…
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