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Tweet Me Homes Delivers Real Estate Listings through Twitter

By Ken Horst

Mortgage and Lending with MLS Maps, Agentopolis, Tweet Me Homes

August 05, 2009 05:47 AM

TweetMeHomes is a new service that instantly delivers homes for sale and real estate to home shoppers using Twitter. We've currently set up 40 major metro areas and made it super easy to subscribe. You will get instant notification of any new homes for sale on your twitter account or as a text message on your cell phone. Each Tweet Me Homes city page also links to a corresponding page which provides access to MLS listings in the same area.

For the Home Buyer

It couldn't be easier! Create an account on Twitter, visit TweetMeHomes, find and subscribe to the desired city or metro area, and have new homes for sale automatically sent to your Twitter account or cell phone as a text message via Twitter.

For the Real Estate Agent & Realtor

While Tweet Me Homes is in beta, we are currently tweeting thousands of real estate listings and homes for sale across the top 40 metro areas and we are adding new cities and metro areas every day. Real estate agents will soon be able to submit their individual listings through Agentopolis and local, regional and national brokers can mass submit listings through RSS or XML feeds.

The initial feedback we are getting is that this is a great new real estate marketing tool that makes it easy for Realtors to connect with home buyers where they live on the Internet. A recent article show the tremendous growth in social media use and surprisingly, it's not just the younger generation.

Contact Ken Horst for more info at 612-251-8237.

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Carla Muss-Jacobs, RETIRED

RETIRED / State License is Inactive - Portland, OR

What is your policy when the property is SOLD! Do you allow listings to linger and allow agents to falsely advertise the active status of a property?

Aug 05, 2009 06:11 AM

Ken Horst

MLS Maps, Agentopolis, Tweet Me Homes - Minneapolis, MN

As you know, most of the real estate listing sites out there other than the MLS have a tough time keeping their inventory current. The good news is that with regards to the individual agent and their personal listings which can be submitted through Agentopolis, Agentopolis removes listings after they have been up for 30 days. The agent whose listing it is receives and email asking if the listing is still active. If it is they simply click on a link back to their profile and they can activate it for another 30 days. If it has sold, they don't have to do anything and their listing will have been removed. So I think the answer to your question is no!

The other point is that Twitter is very different from a traditional property listing site. Most people use Twitter to subscribe to a stream of new content relevant to their interests. If a home shopper is following Tweet Me Homes Minneapolis, the listing is hot and in front of them the day it posts. After that the follower doesn't care and because Twitter doesn't have a system for putting the listing into a searchable database of homes for sale, the likely hood of an agent benefiting from an expired/sold listing is very slim.

Hope that answers your question.

Aug 05, 2009 06:25 AM

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