Twitter launched its new Local Trends feature globally as of yesterday. Local Trends allows you to set your location and have access to the top local trending topics for your own city or country. You can change the location and Twitter will immediately update the trending topics for that area which are displayed in the right-hand sidebar of your Twitter home page.

Below are some screen shots of what you should expect to see when you login to your Twitter page.

When you click on the “Set your location” button above, the location choices, pictured below, will appear.

You can then select the city or countries trends you wish to follow. When you have clicked on your selection a green check mark will appear beside the area you will be following and the trends will update automatically.

Unfortunately with its intial launch Vancouver, which is considered a major hub for Social Media Conversationalists, Critics and Creators. was not on the list. In fact no major Canadian cities made the first cut, but what we can see is trending topics for Canada. I would find it hard to believe that Vancouver will not soon be on that list, especially with the Olympics, in our own backyard, only weeks away. Twitter claims that they “We’ll be improving this feature over time to provide more locations, languages”, hopefully they will make Vancouver a priority.

It will be interesting to see over the next few weeks how theses trends change on a day to day or hourly basis. I wonder how much effect the global trending topics will effect what is happening locally and what will it take for a local topics to break into the global realm. How will you use these trending topics?

While Vancouver may not be trending as of today,  this amazing video of our city is. This beautiful time-lapse of  video of Vancouver, which has made its way through my social networks and even into main stream media news, is a created by David and Dan Newcomb. Enjoy.

“Vancouver City” music video is an artistic collaboration between Innerlife Project and TimeLapseHD. Linda Ganzini’s beautiful and haunting vocals blend with the unique musical style of Serge Chubinski-Orlov who produced and wrote Vancouver City.

By Adam Kambeitz