Do You Get Twitter?

Ruth,

I agree that I don't get it either at times when just looking at it on the surface, but when you start looking at it's individual applications it's pretty powerful.  Here's some ways I use it:

1. To highlight properties (TweetLister), news stories that I think are relevant to the industry, new features of my website, or events in the area

2. I run a search for my town name and it helps me keep on top of some things going on as well as other Realtor practices

3. Take pictures where ever you are and share them quickly with others.  

As far as applications, I think the regular website is cumbersome.  I use Tweetdeck and more recently bean using Hootsuite.  Hoot suite has a really nice interface which allows you to combine both Twitter & Facebook accounts in one spot to manage both.  Hootsuite also has the stats feature which allows you to see how many clicks are happening with your Tweets with links sent through them.  So you get some measurements for effectiveness.

Do I spend a lot of time on it?  No.  It's another place to be for exposure and getting a message out or gaining insight into the area and industry.  

Kathy

Thanks for the abundance of info and how to use Tweeter more effectively. 

Klout says we're a 30, and a Connector. Not sure what that means, if anything. All we know is, we've used Twitter for a while and it's only now beginning to add value to our business. Our first closing due to Twitter will be a cause for celebration...and relief.

Actually, that 30 is for our old user name, @wharriman. We changed to @HarrimanRE 2 weeks ago and because its new, it only has a Klout score of 15 and we're a Persona. Don't know why, it's the same account, but I guess they recalculate it from the date of the change. Either way, we use it to follow other Realtors, current clients and other local people of interest. Then we just try to engage them in meaningful dialog aout things of mutual interest. We also use Twitter to syndicate our posts from both our AR blog and our WordPress blog and to post to our Facebook profile using Selective Tweets (the #fb  hashtag). We've gotten a couple of leads from Twitter, but nothing solid enough to close. We'll just keep engaging, adding value (we hope!) and listening what to our locals are saying, and do our best to use it effectively.

And thanks for following us, we'll gladly follow back!

Ruth,
I believe that tweeter is good to get more traffic, what do you think ? :) keep the good work and sharing these websites are good for many people he ?:

I use Facebook more than Twitter. But you can use Twitter to update both. So I may start. Thanks for the post I have never heard of Klout before I will check it out.

If anyone is keeping score add me to the I don't get it list.

Ah.. Now I understand how it can be useful. Thank you for the blog. -Ingrid

Hi Ruth...

How do I do this? ... "(matter of fact I added my Twitter info in my settings in AR to send all my public blogs to Twitter automatically!)."

I don't get Twitter either.. And I've attended a seminar and read a book on it .. LOL

I did find Twellow.com interesting.. It's the Yellow Pages for Twitter... If someone looks up, for example... New Jersey Real Estate Agent... And you have your profile set up the right way... You have pretty good chances of showing up first in their search engine. 

~ Vienna

I feel overwhelmed by the Twitter excitiment.  I guess I need to jump on it.

I feel overwhelmed by the Twitter excitiment.  I guess I need to jump on it.

I use Twitter, but I barely get it.  I shoot stuff out and wonder what happens to it.  It now lands on facebook too, where I know what happens to it, but off in twitterland I'm just not sure :-)