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Local Twittering!

May 19, 2008

Recently I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about local entrepreneurship and startups. The keyword being local. I started to look around at my contacts (LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook) and realized that most of them were for people outside of the Dallas area. Specifically, when I signed up for Twitter there were VERY few people in the area on the service, but today there are more than 846 people in the area signed up. I thought to myself, ‘wouldn’t it be interesting to follow everyone on Twitter who lives in Dallas?’

Last night I added everyone on Twitter who lives in the Dallas area as an experiment. My hope is that by creating a local community of connections Twitter will become more relevant for me. In any event, I thought I would write this post so that those of you who I connected to (i.e. all 846 of you) would know what I was up to. No, I am not a spam bot or a marketing hack - just a guy trying to make sense of this new social world. If you are in the Dallas area and I didn’t add you feel free to add me and I will add you back: http://twitter.com/amuse

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Blog, Personal 

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9 Responses to “Local Twittering!”

  1. Vikki Says:
    May 19th, 2008 at 8:02 am

    Very cool… I added you… btw another great socnet for finding locals is brightkite.com Hit me up for an invite… I only have a few. No I’m not a bot nor do I work for Brightkite. Just passing some info. Any DFW folks can add me twitter.com/shika

  2. Carla Says:
    May 19th, 2008 at 8:21 am

    Thanks for the add! Like Vikki, I use BrightKite too. And she’s on my BrightKite list already. Come join the fun. *smile*

  3. Alexander Muse Says:
    May 19th, 2008 at 8:31 am

    Never played with BrightKite, will check it out. Thanks!

  4. James Says:
    May 19th, 2008 at 8:43 am

    I have some britekite invites as well. Let me know if anyone needs them. Had to get mine from a girl in San Fran but I bet they’re getting more common now.

  5. Bruce Says:
    May 19th, 2008 at 8:50 am

    Hey Alexander,
    I am new to Twitter and to Texas so this is perfect.
    I added you also.
    If anyone wants to add me, twitter.com/brandbulldawg

  6. Jay Ramirez Says:
    May 19th, 2008 at 9:06 am

    I think this is the ultimate question for Twitter. Can it create community where none existed before? It works well for facilitating community when time sensitive information needs to broadcast to the community, but I wonder how well it establishes it.

    I’m curious to see how it turns out.

  7. Tanya Says:
    May 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Thanks for the add. We launched in 2007, love your support of local startups! Lots of great info on your blog. twitter.com/avasiare

  8. Stuart Watson Says:
    May 19th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    Alex,

    Thanks for adding me. Want to find other local folks who Twitter:

    http://www.twitterlocal.net/

    Interesting to locate other local Twitters who are early adopters.

    Thanks

    Stuart

  9. Alex Leverington Says:
    May 19th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    I would really like to advocate twitter in dallas just to get people talking and change the culture. It would be nice to do something silly like take out a large newspaper ad (oh the irony) or a billboard. It would be nice if I could communicate with folks over twitter locally. Going to try and get everyone at work to use it, but I’m sure it will be a very slow process. The culture of “status updates” is very awkward at first.

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