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Last week Twitter began to slowly roll out a new feature called Local Trends to expose what people are talking about on the state and city level, and now they have fully launched so everyone can use it.

Once you set your location, Local Trends allows you to see what conversational trends are popular nearby. Changing your location immediately updates the list of trending topics in the right-hand sidebar of your Twitter.com home display.

Twitter currently has a limited number of options to choose from in terms of location but they are working on adding more. It has been mentioned in the Twitter blog that they will be improving this feature over time to provide more locations, languages, and data through their API.

Local Trends will allow you to learn more about the nuances in our world and discover even more relevant topics that might matter to you.

Source:Twitter Blog

Twitter plays a major role specifically to crowd source stories and promote your work.The power and scope of Twitter increases multi fold – when a citizen walking on the street – can stream a video feed to Twitter instantly.

Tvider is a free online Application that uses the power of Twitter Service to blend video, picture, text messages and audio in one service using your Computer or Mobile Phones.

Tvider has a wide reach on all leading mobile devices and platforms viz. J2ME, BREW, Symbian S60, iPhone, Blackberry.

Tvider have made it easy to share digital media (Audio, Video, Pictures) for Real Time Citizen Journalism just as easily from your Mobile in 3 Easy steps

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Choose what you want to tweet – Picture, Video, Audio or a Media File saved on your mobile.






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Enter your status message to go along the media file in twitter and choose ‘Update’






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Check out your timeline to see you and your friends media tweets. Reply your friends with media tweets or re-tweet them.

Tvider application – which allows Anywhere, Anyhow and Anyway sharing of media (Video, Audio and Pictures) on Twitter enables real time visual journalism by a simple upload button.

Check out the slideshare on the Top Twitter stories of 2009

Here is a nice Presentation on how journalists can use Twitter for reporting and connecting with communities by Jeremy Rue.

Twitter has announced that they have partnered with mobile provider Telstra to provide SMS Twitter support in Australia.

As always, receiving notifications is free, with standard text message rates applying for sending tweets via SMS. It’s the same pricing as sending and receiving text messages from friends. Give it a try by sending “START” to 0198089488.

Once you have your phone associated with your Twitter account ,try following @Telstra by sending “FOLLOW Telstra” to 0198089488. Or follow one of these popular accounts via SMS by sending “FOLLOW” and the username.

@australian (News from The Australian newspaper)
@delta_goodrem (Musician)
@kyleandjackieo (Australia’s #1 radio show)
@DanniiMinogue (Team Minogue judge for The X Factor)
@KevinRuddPM (Prime Minister)

This adds Australia to the list of official countries supporting tweets via SMS: United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Indonesia, and New Zealand.

More countries and carriers are coming soon.

Microblogging site Twitter has been thrust into profitability after signing two lucrative search deals with Google and Microsoft.

Twitter announced earlier this year that it had signed deals with both Google and Microsoft’s Bing to include tweets in real-time search results.

BusinessWeek, which was bought in October by financial news agency Bloomberg, said Twitter had signed a $US15 million ($16.8 million) data-mining deal with Google and a $US10 million agreement with Microsoft.

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The Year 2009 has been the year of Twitter. New study reveals the top 20 most influential Tweeters in entertainment, music, politics, sport and technology.

Following the news that ‘Twitter’ has been named the word of 2009, a new study by INQ Mobile reveals 2009’s top 20 most influential individuals on Twitter.

The list was developed by identifying five most popular tweeps across different categories and by assigning them an influence rating out of 100. The influence was measured by taking into account factors like number of tweets, number of retweets, number of times retweeted and number of mentions.

The research sees Mashable’s Pete Cashmore in the number one position crowned as the most influential person in technology and across all of the five categories.

Here is a list of International Influences on twitter.

Twitter has moved a step ahead that sees the the site now available in six languages; English, Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian and now Germany.

Spanish, French, and Italian language versions of Twitter have all made their debut in recent weeks,and now it has unveiled support for yet another language: German.

The announcement was made in German in Twitter Blog and here’s the full announcement as shared on Twitter’s blog:

German is one of the most widespread languages of the EU and is the last language we introduced in 2009 on Twitter.com.

With the indispensable help of our many fantastic translators and translators, we have five new languages in less than two months introduced – a huge achievement for our international group. The faster we can make available to Twitter for people all over the world, influencing the faster the different cultures of the world, the global conversation on Twitter.

Here are a few German-speaking users who are already actively engaging on Twitter and might interest you:

@ SPIEGEL_Eil-German magazine
@ Paulvandyk Grammy-nominated DJ of Berlin
@ Silenttiffy-German writer
@ Dieternuhr-comedian and presenter
@ Calmund – longtime Bundesliga Manager

To set your language preferences, visit your preferences page and select German in the drop-down menu “Language”. The whole web interface is now translated! As a next step, visit and follow the official “Twitter in German” profile @ Twitter_De. Thus, our German users can stay informed about news at Twitter up to date. Last,tell your friends now and go ahead and start twittering!