Twellow: The Twitter Yellow Pages

The other day I was reading this blog post on using Twitter to connect with local customers and I discovered two interesting tools, Twellow and Twitter Grader. Although they are very different tools, they both allow you to find Twitter users by location.

Twellow is a directory of public Twitter accounts, with hundreds of categories and search features to help you find people who matter to you. There are different ways to find people on Twellow:

1. By category. There are hundreds of categories and subcategories organized in alphabetical order that you can browse to find interesting profiles. On “Travel” for instance, there’s 5 different categories and the main one has 25 sub-categories. The “Business Travel” sub-category alone, for example, has 92,249 Twitter users listed.
2. By keyword. A search button lets you search a keyword within a specific category, your followers, or the people you are following. You can also search all user profiles and see whose bio or name contains that keyword.
3. By location. The “Twellowhood” feature allows you to find people by location. On the Twellowhood map, select your continent, then country, then state. Twellowhood displays a list of cities with Twitter users for your state. Click on your city name in the list and review the list of Twitter users to choose people to follow.
4. By “Suggested users.” The Twellow Suggested Users feature is dependent upon your categories. Try adding yourself to more categories, then see if you have any suggestions.

For each user you find, Twellow displays their username and real name, their bio, their location, their followers, and gives you the option to follow or unfollow them. Results can also be sorted by followers count!

The interface, which is pretty straightforward, looks like this:

Once you are logged in, you can also publish updates from Twellow.

To wrap up on the benefits, Twellow helps you narrow your searching into specific niches where you can find who you are looking for by category, location, or keyword of interest. And it doesn’t cost anything, so it is definitely worth a try.

We’ll review Twitter Grader some other time, but in the meantime I recommend you read the blog post on using Twitter to find people by location.