Ever want to connect with people nearby that may be potential customers (or actual customers)? What about running promotions or events by using Twitter? Nearby Tweets give you a list of both nearby people on Twitter and what they’re saying. You can easily change the location and search radius if you’re interested in what’s going on in another location, which would be a great way to monitor conferences and events. Possibly the best feature is the ability to search for a keyword in a specific location. Using this feature, you could monitor what was being said about your company or product at a specific location. If you present at events or conferences, this would be an easy way to get instant feedback.
Nearby Tweets is easy to use and very intuitive. When you go to the site it already has a pretty good idea of where you are, but you can easily put in a specific address, radius and keywords. Just hold your mouse over the change location/add keywords button and an interface slides out where you can make changes and update the page. To help you understand how to use Nearby Tweets, they have pages for both personal and businesss uses. If you come up with a use not on the page, I’m sure Brian Cray would love to hear it.
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Not only do I work online, but I pretty much live online. I use web-based applications for just about everything – email, calendar, documents, networking, etc. It’s much easier to have information available online from any computer than have to rely on having my laptop all the time. However, the drawback is needing some way to connect to that information without a computer – a smartphone. Ever since my first blackberry I’ve been hooked on smartphones and having all the information I want at any time with a touch of a button.
The point of Twitter is to have a conversation, but it also nice to send out useful information to your followers – perhaps links of interest or a link when you post to your blog.