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Y’all know I talk about Twitter all the time; I think way too much, although I guess for my output not nearly as much as I think.

Anyway, one of the issues I’ve always had with Twitter is that it’s hard to find people in your own area, or other areas of the country. Sure, you can go to their search function (if you can find it; I’m always forgetting where it is) and type in something you’re interested in, such as “internet marketing” or “chocolate” and you’ll get a number of people who pop up. But they could be almost anywhere.

I decided to put the question out to the Twitterverse, as it likes to be called, and someone came back to me, Amy Walker is her name, with a site called TweepSearch. It’s a new site, still in beta, but what you can do is put in pretty much anything and it will find it for you. For instance, I put in Syracuse, NY, kind of my hometown (the big city to the suburb I actually live in) and almost every person it pulled up lived in the Syracuse area. It did pull up some people who said they were from here but lived elsewhere, but that’s okay as well.

Why did I want to find those people? In mid-January I attended my 3rd tweetup which my buddy Josh wrote about. A tweetup is where local people gather to meet the people they talk to or have followed in some capacity on Twitter. And then you meet other people you didn’t know previously, and if y’all get along you can add them to your Twitter stream as well.

Anyway, I wanted to see if there were people I might know locally that I wanted to hook up with so that I could make sure they knew about the next big tweetup. I did find a couple of people to add locally, which was pretty neat. However, you can use this search for more than cities. You can pretty much put in anything and it will be found. It’s a great way to network and meet new friends; networking is my life sometimes.

The only gripe I had with it is that at times it moves kind of slow. One would expect that if it’s going through everyone who lives in a large city. But in small areas, where you know the number of people on Twitter can’t be all that high, it should move faster. Then again, I did say it was in beta.

I hope you enjoy this little tool; it’s neat.

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