Twitter is a great way to connect with people all over the world, but if you’d like to use it to keep up with what’s going on in your city or town, you might appreciate being able to drill down to a more local focus. Streamd.in is a Twitter client that connects you with other Twitter users in your local city or town.
To use Streamd.in, you need to enable Twitter’s geo-location option and then use OAuth to sign in to Twitter. Once you’re in, you’ll be able to see and respond to tweets from people you follow, as well as see the avatars and recent tweets of other Twitter users on a map of your local area. If you see someone who looks interesting, you can check to see if you’re following them and then follow them if you aren’t already.
As you might be able to tell from the pics, this app becomes a lot more interesting if you live in an area that has a high number of Twitter users. If you’re out in the sticks like me, you won’t get as much out of it.
If you have a webcam, Streamd.in also has a video chat option. You can either broadcast your willingness to video chat with your entire Twitter community or invite another individual user to chat with you. You can also easily view and share Youtube videos, Slideshare presentations and more using the video chat box.
I was pleasantly surprised at the depth of Streamd.in’s functionality, but there are still a few features that I feel are missing. First of all, there needs to be a way to monitor Twitter for keywords and display the results. If you could choose to limit the search to tweets from your local area, that would be even better. Twitter list support would also be awesome.
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