Local Trend Topics – New Twitter Feature
Twitter has announced the full scale launch of local trend topics.
Tuesday January 26, 2010 Twitter launched it’s full scale version of local trends. This should be a giant step forward for local businesses and web sites using Twitter as an advertising media. Now you will be able to see local trends based on demographics. What a great idea!
Twitter trends have been around for a while. Globally, information can travel in real time that has a global interest but there are many important topics that only have an effect or affect certain areas. Having local trends will allow users access to the topics people are discussing locally.
Twitter local trends is brand new and will evolve from this point forward. We will watch this trend closely to see if it becomes a useabl feature for local marketing.