This is a great tool to know about, we’ll have to check it out.

Readers: http://www.LocalChirps.com has a free and Professional version. The pro version is a subscription web application that makes it easy to filter out the noise and watch over any Twitter conversation about your company, your organization, political issues, and so on. The application is a customized closed system configured specifically for each client. Clients choose precisely which cites and geographical locations they would like to monitor. The application can only be accessed by users managed by the client. Unlike other Twitter public website tools, LocalChirps Pro analyzes tweets further back in time, discards spammers and nonsense chatter, and applies Fuzzy Logic algorithms to fully grasp a conversation as it flows on Twitter.

* Track the current trending topics in your city
* Monitor your own set of keywords and conversations
* Get e-mail alerts whenever your brand, company, politics, or cause is mentioned
* Share and colaborate with team members about your reputation
* Compare issues among multiple metro areas
* Pinpoint tweet origins on Google Maps with geotags

LocalChirps allows any person (no Twitter account required) to see the tweet conversation for a specific location, world wide. Marketers and media people can really get a grasp of what’s going on in their community.

LocalChirps also has a big brother, http://Pro.LocalChirps.com This is a more indepth data mining tool of Twitter used for brand tracking, reputation management, and so on.

Please pardon this self-promoting post, but I hope it’s helpful to your readers.

Frank