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
