Twitter Local Trends

Twitter Local Trends

Twitter’s newest feature is the “Local Trends.” With it you can see trending topics that are based on your location.

According to Mashable, Twitter issued them a statement saying, “We’re rolling out local trends to 1 percent of users today, but we’ll share more information when it reaches a larger audience hopefully sometime next week. We’ll keep you posted when that happens.

One of my Twitter accounts is one of the 1 percent that was allowed the option. When the pop up appeard notifieing me of the Local trends, I was given the option of setting your location. The countries listed are Worldwide, Brazzil, Candada, Ireland, Mexico, United Kingdom and the Untied States. The cities listed are Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, Sao Paulo and Washington D.C. Below the cities it reads, “Don’t see your location? We’re working on it.”

It is presumed that more cities will be made available soon.

The Local Trending topics are available on the right column below the twitter lists. You can also change your local trends on the fly for if you are traveling or want to see what is trending in a different location.

A full roll out of the local trends should be available next week if the initial testing goes well. This may be good good counter to the increasingly popular location based servce Foursquare.