links for 2010-01-23

The product is officially called Local Trends. In a statement to us, Twitter (Twitter) said the following: “We’re rolling out local trends to 1 percent of users today, but we’ll share more information when it reaches a larger audience hopefully sometime next week. We’ll keep you posted when that happens.”

There are not a lot of limitations to how fancy you can design your custom Twitter feed and you can easily match it to the look and feel of your website. You can define how many of your tweets (posts on Twitter) you would like to show up, but I will be talking about using just your most recent (only one) tweet, which is the most popular thing to do.