Twitter: some like it, some don’t. One of the things I personally miss on Twitter is the ability to search for people who I have something in common with. A similar education, hobby, workfield or area code for example. A few days ago I discovered TwitterLocal, meaning I can now scratch that last one off my list.

TwitterLocal allows you to discover Tweets around a certain area. You simply put in a city, state or postal code and choose the number of miles you wish to take as margin. Next you can either subscribe to an rss/xml feed of the results or view the latest tweets for.

I tried the service and it seems to work fairly well. To see for yourself just click here to see all Twitterazi -a hardcore group of Dutch Twitter users- within 1 mile of Amsterdam. I saw some familiar faces, but also discovered some new ones to check out. So using TwitterLocal, you might make some new friends

I figure it’s also a practical tool to compare the ‘Twitter-adoption rate’ among various cities. I’ll make a comparison like that soon, might be interesting to see which large Dutch city has more Twitter enthusiastic. Will give the hardcore Twitterazi something to tweet about…