Twitter local trends comes to Baltimore
I signed on to Twitter this morning to discover that I now had access to its latest feature: local trends.
For those who maybe aren't so familiar with Twitter.com, one of its tools for highlighting what people are talking about is trending topics.
That feature has been only available from a worldwide perspective (though you could figure out tweets around you by using Twitter's specific search tool.)
But Twitter users should be seeing a local version of trends, meaning now we'll see results from what Tweeters in Baltimore (or several other cities) are talking most about.
In Baltimore this morning, these are the top topics (left). Apparently, there're a lot of people in Charm City excited about their IRS tax refund check. Heck, so am I!
Comments
Considering that we were "The City That Reads," I would have hoped the top trending topic would be "#witHmyrefundcheck?"
Posted by: Stu Zang | January 27, 2010 9:29 AM
I am excited. I hope this will help cut through the noise and data overload that is Twitter. I figure you must have a critical mass of local Twitter users, but even with limited use, there is so much potential for useful information, like politics, night life, traffic jams, amber alerts and weather/natural disasters. I don't know how yet but, there's got to be potential for local businesses in a local trends stream. Like I said, I am excited.
Posted by: Les Wall | January 27, 2010 9:43 AM
I think it's already broken/never worked, as these same topics have been listed since last night.
I think it's awesome, but I would still like to see global trending on the sidebar as well.
Posted by: kateebee | January 27, 2010 1:00 PM
Experts have talked about this before. How many times have you read about the importance of ‘adding value’ for your audience? How many times have you read about ‘building trust’ with your readers/prospects?
Many, many times. You know it well. Every marketing guru has spoken about this topic. I’m sick of hearing it. But it STILL bears repeating.
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Posted by: henrylow | February 4, 2010 9:30 AM