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My wife had mentioned how some local Twitter users started following her recently. She was curious as to how they found her.
This got me thinking about looking for other Tweeters in our local area, but the ‘find people’ link on Twitter doesn’t have a location filter. I then thought there would certainly be some third party tool that has been created. Sure enough, there’s a little app that uses the Adobe Air application called TwitterLocal (fitting name too ). This tool was ok for locating people who have Tweeted in the last 24hrs but it lacks any customization. There’s no way to adjust the refresh, and it would be nice to be able to add new followers from the app.
I then found you could also do a Google search using ‘site’ and ‘location’ filtering. Here’s an example search query …
site:twitter.com location boise
You can add your state after the city to be specific if you get results for cities in other states with the same name. Doing this search I was able to locate over 1600 Twitter users from Boise.
Then I remembered Twitter does have a search engine (scroll all the way to the bottom of Twitter.com) and once there you will find an advanced search link. There are so many cool search filters, but the one I wanted was the ‘Places’ filter where I can search near my city.
So there you have it, a few simple ways to find Twitter users near you.
Enjoy … Scott
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