When twitter introduced its geolocation functionality to the world everybody was wondering what it would be useful for, now the answer is here.

Twitter recently started to roll out its new local trends functionality to new users day by day and today I just got my local trends activated. What local trends does is make use of twitter’s geolocation functionality to see what twitter users are tweeting about in specific areas. This will enable you to see whats trending in your area and not just the whole world.

Unfortunately the local trends currently does not have any South Africa cities to choose from, but twitter clearly states the following: “Don’t see your location? We’re working on it.”

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