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Oh great, what the270 needs, another Twitter post (by the way follow me, I’m @wyliemac). But bear with me, this one’s a nice story about our interconnected world and about Columbus Twitterers.

A few weeks back, I wrote a blog post about DSW suing Zappos. That post got me looking at the Tracking for Zappos page, where everytime the word “Zappos” is mentioned in a tweet, that tweet appears on the site. Now I thought that was pretty cool. So in a tweet I asked “Anyone know how Zappos set up their aggregation site? Would be nice to do something like that for #Columbus.”

Later that night, I got a direct message from the CEO of Zappos, aka @Zappos, telling me that he could set a page up for me. After consulting with the Columbus Social Media Cafe, I came up with a few Columbus tracking words and now each time those words are on a tweet, the appear on the Tracking for Columbus page. There is also an “employee” page that collects tweets from those Columbus Twitterers that have agreed to be a part of the tracking site. (Note, we’re labeled employees because the template is built from Zappos’ employee tracking page.)

The site is freaking amazing if I must say. In a glance, I can see what people are saying about and doing in Columbus. Yes, there are some mishits, but for the most part most of the tweets are Columbus related. I encourage you to take a look at the site and keep track of the Columbus Twitterers. And if you want to be included on the list, just let me know and I’ll add you. The only thing I require is that you live in the Central Ohio area.

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