Twitter is a useful micro blog platform that allows its users to post micro posts of 140 characters or smaller.  Realtor's can utilize Twitter to further promote their AR posts and even announce a new property placed on the market.

Further uses of Twitter for a real estate professionals might include:

1. Announcing New Industry news both regional or national.
2. Passing a long a lead referral - "I have a client interested in buying a condo in Tampa; any Realtor's interested?"
3. Sharing success stories - "I just closed on my second home this month!"
4. Discoveries - "I just found this IDX platform, take a look! http://..."
5. Open Houses - "Today I'll be at..."

Twitter is helpful for those that may not have time to write out a full blog post but want to share something with others really quickly and easily.  It is also great for promotional purposes since anything you 'Twitt" will be shown to anyone following your profile.

Today an Active Rain profile was created for Twitter.  The purpose of the profile is to share several AR member posts through out each day directly through the AR profile.  It is also meant to help real estate professionsals connect and share with other Active Rain Members.

Take the two - three minutes nessessary to create and update your own Twitter account at http://twitter.com/signup.  Once you create your own profile or if you already have a profile visit the AR profile at http://twitter.com/activerain and click on "Follow" under the profile's icon at the top left.