Is Twitter a valuable tool for a PEI Real Estate agent in Prince Edward Island, Canada, or, for that matter, an agent anywhere in the world? That is the "big question".

On Twitter you are exposed to millions of tweeters that are potential real estate buyers or sellers. The challenge is to form a relationship with some of them and eventually key in on your business of interest - real estate. These many tweeters are common folk, but there are also many celebrities or high profile business people that could be potential investors.

Twitter has people that you follow and people that follow you. You can reply to those you follow, but you can send a direct message to your followers. The key is to have many followers. CNN has over 1 million followers, and many celebrities, etc have many hundreds of thousands of followers. So the challenge for the common real estate agent is to build the follower list to a high number.

How valid are the Twitter tweeters? You may think you are talking to some big business man or celebrity, when, in fact, you are never quite sure as to the person's authenticity.

Twitter raises an interesting question though: where else in the communications world could you potentially be talking to a giant celebrity or well know investor?  Twitter has a wonderful potential for a real estate transaction but, again, there is no guarantee. One thing is for sure: you are "rubbing shoulders" with the well known of the world.

That's is for now,

George, Red Soil Real Estate Inc., 902-962-2050, http://www.buysellpei.com