A local Twitter tool for local journalists
February 10th, 2009Posted by John Thompson in Handy tools and technology, Social media and blogging
Twitterlocal allows you to follow posts on Twitter made by people from a geographical location of your choice.
Now a downloadable AIR desktop application, this is a must-have tool for local newspaper or broadcast journalists who want to monitor Twitter chat in their local beat.
For national journalists, it could be a useful tool to monitor chat around a breaking news event in a specific location, anywhere in the world.
Try, for example, entering Melbourne, Australia into the application with a 10-mile radius. You will see Tweets about the bush fires (if you are doing this around the date this post was published!)
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February 13th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
TwitterLocal is a fantastic app, it’s helped me build a community around Preston Blog in less than a month by connecting with local people. Promoted plenty of comments and guest posts as well!