TwitterLocal is a great tool for finding other Twitter users and tweets in your area. You can use TwitterLocal one of two ways: by using the simple web form on their website, or by downloading the Adobe AIR application, which also enables you to send tweets and follow your friend's replies (functionality similar to Twhirl).
The web form is easy enough: enter in your location (using a postal code and/or city and state), choose the radius you want to search (from 1 mile to 50 miles), and hit the Go button. Tweets in the selected area are supplied in both an RSS and XML feed.
All in all, this is a handy tool for finding tweets and Twitterers in your area. Who knows, maybe you'll one day meet a local Twitterer at the grocery store or Jiffy Lube. Though that might be hard, because:
- People who use Twitter don't often go out into the sunlight. It hurts us.
- Though billed as a social tool, Twitter is actually for people who fear social interaction. Thus, even if one Twitterer recognized a fellow Twitterer in a store or other public location, they'd probably scurry away before a confrontation could ensue.
- Our Twitter alter-egos are often so different from our real selves that others would have a hard time recognizing us. We might be Superman in the Twitter universe, but outside we are merely mild-mannered reporters.
[via Paisano]
