Home > Blogs > Brad Andersohn > ActiveBrad's Blog

ActiveRain and Your NEW Twitter Settings

Education & Training with Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp Non-Licensed

September 29, 2008 05:02 AM

Mark this day as another that will go down in History as an "AWESOME NEW FEATURE" added to the ActiveRain Network. We have added and are rolling out Twitter auto-feeds for your AR Blog posts. If you have a Twitter account already, you can set yours up now. If you don't, you'll need to go to Twitter.com and set one up. It will take less than a minute.

What is Twitter? It's micro-blogging. "Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application such as Twitterrific or Facebook. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email."

Setting Up Twitter on ActiveRain:

The process for setting up your Twitter Account on ActiveRain will literally take you 10 seconds.

Click On "My Home" at top of this page

Click on the "My Settings" link on left side of page

Scroll down to "Twitter Setup" and enter your info

Put in your Twitter user name and password, Click Update

When you create a new post now (if enabled), Twitter will automatically place an announcement in your twitter feed and profile including the Title of the post as well as a link to your post. We are looking at adding an option on the "New Post" page that allows you to select which posts you want to tweet. Now go post in the rain, and let the outside world and your followers know. You can follow me on Twitter here: Follow ActiveBrad

Here are some other Twitter related sites you may be interested in checking out. Enjoy this new feature, it will certainly drive more traffic to your Blog posts and it's so easy to use.

Twitter Apps - Twitter 3rd Party Apps

Twitstat - Real time Twitter Analytics

TwitPic - Stores Photos Taken from Phone

TWhirl - Another Twitter Use Interface

Twitterrific - For your iPhone or Smart Phone

For More - Go to Twitter Fan Wiki

Re-Blog

Featured

Comments (162)
Subscribe to Comments Comment

Show All Comments

Sort:

Paul Howard

Cherry Hill, NJ

Paul Howard Realty, 856-488-8444

Brad, I must be doing something wrong. My twitter settinga are correect - not protected.

My active rain settings appear correct.

But it does not work. I posted to my blog and nothing in twitter.

I'm wondering about this wording: "When you create a new post now (if enabled)" from your post. When I post to my blog I click blog then click "New Blog Entry". Is "create a new post now" something different and why would it not already be enabled?

I'm lost.

Paul Howard

Dec 01, 2008 04:44 AM

asd asdasd

asdasd - Albany, NY

This still doesn't work for me and I've been posting new blogs for a while now. I had one post show up in twitter once, but nothng since.

I've changed my password, logged out, then back in to make sure I had it right, updated it in active rain, and still nothing.

I had an email from active rain support about it and then never got back to me after I let them know it still was not working.

Dec 01, 2008 04:57 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Paul and Jon - we are aware of the twitter component not working at the present time. It's not you, it something we are working on to get corrected. We will have it fixed along with many of the other issues being fixed right now. See Jeff Corbett's featured post today regarding the network and the corrections we are making and why. Thanks for your patience, this too shall pass. :-)

Dec 01, 2008 05:48 AM

Brian Schulman

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Lancaster PA - Lancaster, PA

Lancaster County PA RealEstate Expert 717-951-5552

Hi Brad, seems like an interesting new feature. I signed up for Twitter for the first time because it sounds like synergy between Twitter and AR.

Dec 01, 2008 08:25 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Brian - synergy is a good thing. Be sure to also check out the "TwitterLike Function" now located on City pages of ActiveRain. I don't think alot of members even know it's there. It's not twitter, but very similar and could be useful to you in your area. Hope you'll check it out. :-)

Dec 01, 2008 10:20 AM

Robert Havana

Park and Protect- Alberta Real Estate License Parking - Calgary, AB

Alberta Real Estate License Parking

I must admit that I do have a twitter and mysteriously have a few dozen followers, but have never really figured out how to use it or subscribed to anyone else. Not sure I really want to hear updates about other people and what they are doing.

Apr 04, 2009 08:05 PM

Marifrances Krstic

Signature Homes Island Style - Honolulu, HI

Adding my thanks for great instrctions on the tech side of real estate!

THANK YOU!

Apr 25, 2009 10:21 AM

Holly Weatherwax

Associate Broker, Momentum Realty - Reston, VA

A Great Real Estate Experience

Brad, If I have the feed to Twitter set up, what happens to my Members Only posts? Do they get fed, too? I am going to do some research, but sometimes you can save a lot of time by going right to the expert!

May 03, 2009 02:42 AM

Holly Weatherwax

Associate Broker, Momentum Realty - Reston, VA

A Great Real Estate Experience

Never mind, Brad. I just went in to my Twitter settings on AR and saw that there is an option NOT to share member only posts. You guys think of everything!

May 03, 2009 02:47 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hi Holly - glad you got it worked out. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help. :-)

May 03, 2009 07:59 AM

Jim Harris

Neighborly Realty & Neighborly Financial - Rocklin, CA

Hello Brad, For the Twitter settings - do we use our user-id (that we log in with) or the Profile name associated with our Twitter setting? Do I use "NeighborlyJim" from my https://twitter.com/NeighborlyJim profile Or my login name when I first pull up Twitter (that is just my name of JimHarris). Please do let me know. Thanks for making this happen! Jim

Aug 11, 2009 06:14 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hi Jim - you'll need to use just your twitter login name and password associated with your twitter account.

Aug 11, 2009 06:29 AM

Jim Harris

Neighborly Realty & Neighborly Financial - Rocklin, CA

Thank you Brad. A 2nd question if I may, my apologies for the wrong blog thread... I'd like to customize my Activerain URL a bit. Change it from my generic www.activerain.com/jim_harris3 to www.activerain.com/neighborly Can I do that? Thanks again, Jim

Aug 11, 2009 09:07 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hey Jim - the URL is just your AR user name from when you signed up on AR. We can change it for you, but you could lose some of your links that direct back to the old user name if we do. If you're ok with that, let me know, and I'll change your user name to "activerain.com/neighborly" if it's available on the network. B~)

Aug 11, 2009 06:44 PM

Jim Harris

Neighborly Realty & Neighborly Financial - Rocklin, CA

Thank you again Brad. Let's do it. Please change to activerain.com/neighborly Many thanks. Will I now log in with the user id of "neighborly" instead of "jim_harris3"? If it all breaks.... my email is Jim@NeighborlyRealty.com ....and thanks again for the help! - Jim

Aug 12, 2009 11:42 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Jim - changes have been made. Your new profile name and domain her is http://activerain.com/neighborly. Enjoy!!

Aug 13, 2009 11:41 AM

Nicky Dou

Collier & Associates - Fayetteville, AR

The BEST REAL ESTATE AGENT in Northwest Arkansas

I know this is an old post - but wondered if anyone knows if this feature is disabled or something. I had it set up and just recently noticed this wasnt working anymore - I found Brad's post and did the My Home, My Settings (which is now just Settings) and couldnt find twitter setup - am I missing something? help!!!

Jul 16, 2011 04:34 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hey Nicky - great to hear from you.

I think the reason AR removed the twitter feed/sync option is that due to a lack of knowledge and understanding of how to use Twitter effectively, AR was being tied and linked to spam.

If members ONLY tweeted their listings, or blog posts, others saw it as ineefective spam. I'm sure it was silently removed to protect the network and all the other members.

Just a hunch... :-)

Jul 17, 2011 05:44 AM

Gary Behrend - ePro Certified

Keller Williams Chervenic Realty - Hudson, OH

DigitallyPowered.com gets you DigitallySOLD.com

Hey Brad, I was hoping you could help me like Jim Harris Above. Would it possible for me to have my username/url changed to the username DigitallySOLD and the url http://ActiveRain.com/DigitallySOLD . Thanks

May 30, 2014 02:14 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hey Gary - I'm with Zillow now but I'm sure that Bob Stewart or Kerrie can help you get that changed if it's not already taken? Try reaching out to them and see if they can help you out, if not... let me know and I'll try to get you connected to someone here who can help. Thanks. :-)

May 31, 2014 06:03 AM

Older Post

Newer Post

Ambassador
826,015