TwitZip Uses Outside.in Platform to Bring Hyperlocal News to Twitter

Posted by lauren on Monday, August 16th, 2010 at 7:00 am

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We’ve got great news for hyperlocal news lovers and social media addicts! You can now follow headlines from your ZIP code on Twitter, thanks to our friends at TwitZip. TwitZip is a great example of how our geographically organized news platform can be leveraged to create a fantastic new tool to help people stay in touch with what’s happening in their communities. After registering Twitter handles for nearly ever U.S. ZIP code, TwitZIP used our hyperlocal data to tweet out the news for every ZIP. Their handles also send out local deals from Groupon every day.

To see hyperlocal news and deals in your Twitter stream, just go to twitter.com/{your ZIP} and click follow. I’m following my home ZIP at http://twitter.com/11217.

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Our favorite TwitZip feature enables citizen reporting via @ reply. Just @ any ZIP handle with breaking news or events and include the hashtag #twitzip to be retweeted by that ZIP.

To learn more about how TwitZip got started, check out this nice article in Silicon Prarie.

We’re looking forward to hearing what you think of this new medium for Outside.in headlines—let us know in the comments!

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  • noGenius

    your idea of applying zip codes to hyper local social media is LAME at best, faceless, robotic, voiceless, without even a hint of authenticity, upon closer scrutiny. i’m only saying. otherwise cool.

  • http://www.success-ladder.com/2010/08/09/pride-comes-before-a-fall-and-then-some/ the Success Ladder

    Thank you very much for sharing this. I have subscribed to your RSS feed. Please keep up the good work.

  • Anonymous

    It’s true, the TwitZip implementation is automated – but, if you look at the results, you’ll get links to some really interesting blogs and bloggers with authentic voices, real personalities and a lot of great, original content. I don’t think that those voices are any less valuable because we’re using aggregation to point to them.

    Best,

    Esther Brown
    Community Manager, Outside.in

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