Whether you want to network and make friends in your current city or perhaps to get to know the community in another, Twitter is a great way to do it. It’s also a very easy way to do it since as it stands there at tons of public lists of locals floating around Twitter.  Here are four different ways you can find locals in your or another area:

1.       Check to see if you yourself are in a locals list

This is a good place to start looking for quality locals lists since you will be mutually friends with the other people on this list through at least the one person that made the list.

2.       Check directories

Using directories like listorious you can find at least a handful of good locals and sometimes good lists of locals.

3.       Combine a bunch of existing lists to form a “Super Locals List”

This can be a good idea either if you can only find small locals lists or if your goal is to network or get to know as many people as possible.  Using Formulists, you can make a “custom” list and add or intersect together as many as 10 existing lists.

4.       Find one socially active local

If you know someone great in either your city or anther and want to find more locals like them, simply enter them in as the “someone” in your Formulists “People-Like-Someone” list and then enter your city into the “location” filter.  You can make this list as large or small as you want