Everyone now has access to Twitter Local Trends, a feature that was rolled out by Twitter last week on a limited basis. Check the website—you should now have access to the feature.

The Twitter Blog makes it clear that trending topics on a city and state level could be very relevant to any Twitter user. In addition, the website plans on rolling out even more features within this feature—locations, languages and data—in the near future.

This is an exciting step for the Twitter platform. Seeing the popularity of the trending topics, local trends will undoubtedly provide an outlet for people to discover what is new around their location.

In addition, it could provide a good service for breaking news or important service announcements. While local trends should be subject to many of the criticisms that national trends get (false news stories and reports, etc.), it should still act as a useful feature for most.

And with geolocation really beginning to emerge on services like FourSquare and Yelp, local trends couldn’t have come at a better time.

What are your thoughts on local trends? Have you taken advantage of the new feature yet?

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