Web developer Ian Lintner has put together a great solution for extracting Twitter trending topics for a given geographical location. If you’re an avid Tweeter you know that Twitter doesn’t provide this functionality, but using Perl, the Twitter API via Net::Twitter, the Yahoo Term Extraction Service, and SQLite3 for data storage, Lintner manages to filter Tweets by geographical coordinates and popularity to find localized trends. I won’t even pretend to understand how this works, but if you head to his website, [dot] Code Dump, there is a complete process overview with code examples and the whole bit. Here’s an example for Des Moines, Iowa.
How to find Twitter trends near you
Jul 22 at 5:05am by admin