How To Find Local Twitter Users

One of the reasons that Twitter has become so popular is that it is so useful from a networking perspective. For this reason it tends to still be more popular in business and tech circles than, say, Facebook but there are still plenty of people simply using it for fun.

The thing is though that Twitter is great for helping you network with people who hang out in similar places to you - the same forums or social netowkring sites - but it can be harder to find people in your local area who share your interests.

I recently decided I’d like to challenge this and find out if there was a way that I could find people in my local area who shared my interests - web 2.0, web design and so on.

Luckily I stumbled across a really useful tool in my research - called NearbyTweets.com - in which you enter your location and some keywords to search for and then it brings up recent tweets from people that match your specifications.

Amazingly enough, bearing in mind what a small town I live in, I found two like-minded individuals already who I have now connected with - and I even found the local bus company are using Twitter to let customers know where they are on their route!

NearbyTweets is a really nifty service for meeting like-minded individuals and I strongly recommend you try it out for yourself today.