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    Me. Flut replied on November 12, 2009 00:32 to the idea "Trending topics should be organized by locations" in Twitter:

    Me. Flut
    I recently came across a nice website http://trendsmap.com/ which pretty much resembles my whole Idea in a nice way.

    Only problem is that it only works with english language tweets so far, so it is not of much use right now, but as far as I know they're working on it and it's definately a step in the right direction.

    I'd like something like this to be implemented into twitter and to work with every language. Anyway nice approach, great app.

    It's kind of sad however that I didn't get any reactions here about this topic. If it wasn't for http://trendsmap.com/ I'd feel that my efforts on getsatisfactioncom would be completely wasted...
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    Me. Flut replied on October 22, 2009 23:03 to the idea "Trending topics should be organized by locations" in Twitter:

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    I'd like to get some of your reactions!
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    Me. Flut replied on October 12, 2009 15:03 to the idea "Twitter user should define multiple languages for tweets and followers could choose the right one" in Twitter:

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    That is an awesome idea. I too tweet in two languages. German and English and it would be nice to have an option that allows me to write a message in two languages so that the reader only sees the one language he wants to see / understands.
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    Me. Flut shared an idea in Twitter on October 12, 2009 12:05:

    Me. Flut
    Trending topics should be organized by locations
    Hello twitter users!

    My problem:

    Right now the trending topics section of twitter works like this: The 10 most popular topics on whole of twitter get listed.

    Now I'm from Europe, Germany to be exact. The trending topics however are always related to anything happening in the USA. This is because the largest amount of people on twitter come from the USA. Therefore I simply don't know what people in my area are talking about. I am using twitter for a year now and I never saw any trending topic related to anything happening in Europe or even Asia. And things will more likely stay like that untill twitter gets more users outside of America.

    For example yesterday three or even more trending topics were about a certain football match between the Raiders and the Giants. So you had #nfl, #Raiders, #Giants and probably one more topic about that happening. As American Football is almost of no interest at all to the rest of the world this is a good example of the heavy global inbalance that goes with the trending topics section of twitter, which actually is an interesting idea for twitter.

    My attempt on a solution / my idea:

    Twitter itself would be of much more use if you could somehow see the main topics that are relevant to a certain area of users. There are multiple ways to do that:

    1. You add an optional context menu to the trending topics button that lets you sort trending topics by the locations of the users. So by clicking on 'trending topics' a list opens up displaying the 6 continents. By clicking on the name of a continent you can then go and select a country, a province, a region, a district, a street.

    2. Imagine a world map with push pins, very much looking like google Earth. Every pin representing a topic. The more popular the bigger the pin. If you zoom in on an area, you see the most popular topics of the area you're looking at. And you can therefore distinguish topics by relevance. If you zoom in at a country you most likely get topics relevant to the whole country, if you zoom in at a city you get the most discussed stuff in the city.

    3. All of this could be easily implemented in Google Earth as some kind of plugin. If that's not possible you could have a less complex version of the map on twitter. For example as interactive Flash content, that'd look a lot like Google Maps.

    For this idea to work, twitter would need a new option in the user preferences panel, where you could set your location. Something that is also very easy to implement. It is a matter of discussion however on how detailed that information is. I wouldn't want to enter my complete adress at twitter.

    I think this feature is extremely needed. The trending topics section makes not much sense as it is now.

    What do you think? Please comment!