Would you like to find more locals to follow on Twitter? (And hopefully get them to follow you back!)
A new Twitter application called GeoChirp may be just what you asked for!
GeoChirp is a handy website which uses Google maps and the location identifiers of twitter users to pinpoint the most recent tweets from a zipcode.
You can set it to search within a 1 to 50 mile radius. You can even narrow it down within that region.
If you leave the search box blank, it will pull all recent tweets, but if you search for “house” you will get all tweets in your search area with the word house.
A real estate agent performing this search in the Minneapolis area may have just struck gold, because the second tweet that we came up with in that search was from “flashyandy: At Ikea, wishing we owned our house.”
Well…you all know where that might lead! (As a matter of fact, we will probably suggest to a few Edina real estate agents we work with to add him!)
GeoChirp claims to be the first on the scene to find Tweeple by zip code. Well, sort of. Twellow has that option, but it will only show those who have actually signed up to be listed in their directory.
The great thing about GeoChirp is that it will pick up everyone with that zip code listed in their Twitter account.
GeoChirp is a beta program released by CueBlocks. They have also recently released some other GeoChirp features including:
- Subscribe to the RSS feed of your search
- Option for global search results which are not limited by zip code
- Twitter translation tool (translates Tweets to and from any language)
- And of course, you can follow GeoChirp on Twitter, Facebook and their blog for all the latest updates.
Have you tried GeoChirp? What did you think about it?
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