Localized Twitter

Posted July 27th, 2009 by Deb Ward

Is there a good way to set up a small busines for a localized geographic area for Twitter? We don't want tweets going global for services that are only offered locally.

Thanks.... Deb Ward

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Why don't you try something else?

Adrian Chira 50 weeks 3 days 2 hours 13 sec ago

Hi Deb,

why don't you try to put your location in your Twitter name? In this way people will now/figure out that the messages you send are related with that location. The messages will go globally but most of your followers may be the ones that are in your area.

Best regards,

Adrian

What's the drawback?

RickBurnes 1 year 3 hours 35 min ago

Hi Deb,

As other folks have pointed out, it's not easy to do what you're talking about.

In fact, I'm not sure it's worth worrying about targeting your tweets to a specific geography -- except that you should include the specific geographic names in your Twitter bio and location. It also makes sense to include place names in your Tweets frequently.

Simply by doing these things, you'll show up on local searches. For example, I show up on this Twitter Grader search for Cambridge, MA, because that's the "location" I have in my Twitter bio: http://twitter.grader.com/index.php?Action=TwitterUsersByLocation&City=CAMBRIDGE&State=MA&Country=US

Rick

You can't really target

Toni Aničić 1 year 1 day 9 hours 18 min ago

You can't really target location with your tweets. They will be visible to anyone following you or anyone searching for anything you say via twitter search. What you CAN do and I personally wouldn't do it is protect your tweets. This way, the tweets will only be seen by people you authorize to see them.