Twitter Twaffic Explodes Confirming New Twend

During the holidays I received a few emails indicating surprise that I included micro blogging (Twitter) on my Top 10 Events impacting Real Estate in 2008 so I thought I would provide a little more information for those that are not that familiar with the concept of short text-based 140 character posts.

Twitter is again one of those social media phenomena's. Founded in 2006 Twitter moved into the mainstream in this year. According to HubSpot 1 million people joined Twitter since October, pushing the new 2008 Twitter users to 3.5 million and the grand total to 5 million Twitterers or Tweeple.

(PS: To the loyal MySpace and Facebook fans, yes, Facebook is still the largest socialmedia site and is about 30 times bigger with approx. 140 million users).

Twaffic (Twitter traffic) has risen sharply on Twitter this year. Already at an admirable 1 million unique users per month at the beginning of the year, traffic has risen to almost 4 million unique users per month, affirming Twitter as the #1 micro-blogging tool on the Internet.

Realtors are also in increasing numbers Tweeting (communicating) and Twittworking (networking on Twitter). Various real estate related applications are also starting to emerge.

I will be posting regular Twend Tweets (Real Estate Trend Updates) on Twitter so you are interested you can follow me @Swanepoel

Love to hear are you Rainers are finding Twitter for your real estate busienss?