Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Forestville in Social Media

Some social media sites are easier to search by locations others are harder. I tried to locate people/items related to our town, and as there are several other Forestvilles in the US  I searched for "Forestville, CA". Here are some results.
  • On Flickr as of now there are 511 hits if you search for the tags.Vast majority of them is of students of a school by "El Domo." If you search Flickr directly for location, based on the geotags of the images, you get 328 results. These you can sort by "recent" or "interesting."
  • You can search Twitter's content and you may get a few results. Right now only 6, all from the last four days, including two about the band that played last weekend in the Forestville Club, a musician who will play this week and a real estate and a shipping update and the Farmhouse Inn's competition ending. When you search for users you will only get entities who had put "forestville" in their username. All four of them, including this blog's, a dead account, a non-California account and account that belongs to a site, that contains automatic feeds that may or may not be about Forestville, CA.
  • On Facebook the first results is the automatic page they had put up a few weeks ago. You can find people who put our town as their location or hometown in their profile by following this link, but"only" th first 500 will show up. You can search pages , groups and events too.
Theer are many more social media sites, of course, but wanted to start with three big one.

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