Monday, April 19, 2010

Three ways a newsroom can build its Twitter network by location

Twellow/Twellowhood (http://www.Twellow.com/)
Twellow.com is essentially the Yellow Pages of Twitter. You can search for users by profession, interest and most importantly, location. Click the "Twellow Hood" tab on the homepage and you can search to see what users are in what town.
Reporters should use Twellowhood to search their coverage area for Twitter users. Once the reporter finds Twitter users, follow them and begin building your online network to connect with die-hard or potential readers.


American Towns (http://www.AmericanTowns.com/)
AmericanTowns.com is a website that catalogs online communities by town in the United States. Users who sign up for an account can find local bloggers to link to and Twitter users with whom users can share and find stories. American Towns even pulls multimedia like YouTube videos and Flickr photos, which have been tagged to certain zip codes. This is by far one of the most personal and powerful tools on the Web which has yet to be used to its potential.




Nearby Tweets (http://nearbytweets.com/)
NearbyTweets.com allows its users to view a Twitter feed by your GPS location. This feed, however, is not your personal Twitter feed, instead users can see locally posted tweets. So if a user is on Nearby Tweets in Cleveland, Ohio, that user will see other Twitter users who are Tweeting from Cleveland.

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