TwitterLocal Peeks into the Real World
April 5th, 2008 (8:00am) Mike Gunderloy 3 CommentsTweet This
For the most part, despite a few geographic mashups like twittervision, Twitter users have existed in some amorphous location best known as cyberspace. But a new service, TwitterLocal, threatens to actually drag Twitterers into the real world.
TwitterLocal is simple to understand: you enter a city, state, or postal or zip code, and a radius (1 to 50 miles) and it pulls down the public tweets from everyone in that locale. You can get the results in RSS, on the web, or via a desktop Adobe AIR application. It’ll be interesting to see whether this changes the Twitter dynamic at all: would you be more or less likely to participate if you knew your real-world neighbors could be watching?
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Trying to figure this out. I have my location set in my twitter profile, but this gadget doesn’t list my tweets…
This is a brilliant application that will make gathering (hyper)local intelligence/insight that much easier.
Sounds like TwitterWhere – which has been around for a while. I create a simple mash-up some time ago using TwitterWhere and twitterfeed to create an automated Twitter feed that shows tweets from local people in Canberra, ACT Australia:
http://twitter.com/CanberraTweets