Twitter offering Local Trends as a new service to users

Twitter began offering trends on its front page and users’ sidebar as a way of identifying the most popular conversations taking place in real-time.

Through the use of geo-location, Twitter has also been able to identify which parts of the world are having discussions that are common in their area and now it’s began to offer users the ability to discover topics that may be relevant to them.

By changing the trending location, you can immediately see an updated list of trending topics in the right-hand sidebar of your Twitter’s homepage display. Currently the list of cities and countries is limited for now, but Twitter is working on providing further options to its users.

In addition to the trends, it’s also possible of identifying topics relevant to your area by utilising Twitter.com’s search engine. For example, by entering in the search engine “Cardiff”, you can see all conversations relevant to Cardiff.

During the bad weather, I used that feature a lot to find out what is going on in Cardiff and Trefforest.