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setting a goal for Jason Crouch

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Real Estate Agent with Jameson Sotheby's International Realty

I have been on twitter for a while now.. and was extremely excited to learn that I now had 43 followers.  I thought that was a pretty fair number who were interested in following my inane tweets.

"Snow again today", "a full day of showings today"... really, people care to read that stuff?

But I am eclipsed by our paragon of Active Rain over at Twitter as well... Jason Crouch weighs in, on Twitter, with an impressive 5,766 followers.  Yowza... I figured that had to be a record.

so I checked my Twinfluence on Twitter against Jason's... and while doing so learned that Jason, too, has a goal to reach on Twitter. A industrious fellow named Scot McKay, also out of Texas, but San Antonio this time (what IS it with these incredibly active internet gurus out of Texas??) has amassed 31,267 followers and the title of the Twitter-er with the most "reach".  And he's managed to do so with far less effort having made only 4,391 updates, while Jason's been incredibly active with 12,367 updates (tweets) at least effective this morning.

Wow!  I think even Lenn Harley would have trouble getting a pink badge on that one!

Suddenly, I don't know why, but I feel a little better about my measely 43 followers.

Posted by

 ALAN MAY, Realtor®   
Specializing in Evanston Real Estate and North Shore Real Estate

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty, 2934 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Office: 847.869.7300      Cell: 847.924.3313      Email: Almay@aol.com

Evanston Real Estate & North Shore Real Estate
Licensed in Illinois

   

Comments (26)

Susan Mangigian
RE/MAX Preferred - West Chester, PA
Chester & Delaware County Homes, Delaware and Ches

Jane and Roy, do you think Alan is saying we are old?? Or he is old?  What did he mean by that comment.  I'm calling the fun police. 

Mar 06, 2009 01:58 AM
Susan Mangigian
RE/MAX Preferred - West Chester, PA
Chester & Delaware County Homes, Delaware and Ches

Roy, I didn't say the people who were following me were fools!  Lol!  But I do wonder why they would follow me, when I'm just fooling around most of the time.

Mar 06, 2009 02:02 AM
Caren Wallace
Premier Property Group LLC - Tualatin, OR
Portland Caren Real Estate

Alan, your tweets are not all they are interested in, your blogs are entertaining too!!!!

Mar 06, 2009 02:12 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Susan, heaven forfend that I would call you old.  You are the embodiment of youth and joy!  I, on the other hand, am making Dorian Grey's portrait look young and hip.  Roy, on the other hand, makes Cheech Marin look chic and spry.

Caren, I suppose there are those who are using my tweets as a way to follow my blogs... and if so, that's great.   But I know that's not the method they recommend to use Twitter.

Mar 06, 2009 02:26 AM
Kristin Moran
Owner - RE/MAX Access - KristinMoran@Remax.net - San Antonio, TX
San Antonio,TX - Real Estate - 210-313-7397

I follow both the fellas you mention in your post.  I am contributing to their successes...does that count?

Mar 06, 2009 08:18 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

I'm feeling better all along about NOT being on Twitterl  Who cares what I'm doing right now???

Mar 06, 2009 12:26 PM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Kristin - everything you do counts!

Barbara - I feel the same way.. who cares that I'm hacking up some good phlegm?

Mar 07, 2009 12:38 AM
Teresa K. Nelson
Compass - Woodinville, WA
Your Trusted Real Estate Advisor

Hey Alan, it's one of your tweethearts...I got your twit checking your tweets this morning!

Mar 07, 2009 03:30 PM
John Novak
Keller Williams Realty The Marketplace - Las Vegas, NV
Henderson, Las Vegas and Summerlin Real Estate

Hi Alan - The CEO of Zappos has over 194,000 followers! Their corporate office is located right here in Henderson NV.

Mar 07, 2009 05:18 PM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Teresa, how you doin' tweetheart?

John, really?  'cause Twinfluence showed Scot as the one with the largest following... what's his name?

Mar 08, 2009 01:49 AM
John Novak
Keller Williams Realty The Marketplace - Las Vegas, NV
Henderson, Las Vegas and Summerlin Real Estate

Hi Alan - Here's a link to the Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh's, profile: http://twitter.com/zappos And it's really him tweeting, not just someone in the marketing or PR department.

Mar 08, 2009 04:01 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Holy Morklefeathers, people... John Novak is right.  Tony from Zappos.com has 195,523 followers.. (now, including ME!).

... and I'm sure, just like Jason, the Crouch, he knows each and every one of us by name!

The King is dead, the king is dead... Long live the King!

Interestingly enough, though... Tony doesn't come up on Twinfluence.com, or TwitSeeker.com.  I wonder why?

Mar 08, 2009 04:08 AM
Bruce Brockmeier
Internet Marketing Consultant to REALTORS® - Yorba Linda, CA
Coached By Crouch

Twinfluence showed Scot as the one with the largest following

Hey Alan,

Twinfluence must have missed the Big Guy.  Check out his followers!

  • Name THE_REAL_SHAQ
  • Location PHOENIX/EVERYWERE
  • Bio VERY QUOTATIOUS, I PERFORM RANDOM ACTS OF SHAQNESS

491
Following
453,177
Followers
1,044
Updates

Mar 28, 2009 05:41 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

yowch.. now that's a big following for a big guy

Mar 28, 2009 02:50 PM
Jason Crouch
Austin Texas Homes, LLC - Austin, TX
Broker - Austin Texas Real Estate (512-796-7653)

Alan - I have no idea how I missed this post the first time around, but I am now approaching 8200 followers - I will keep fighting the good fight!

May 27, 2009 05:21 PM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Jason... I'm not the least bit surprised... (well, I'm only surprised the the number's not higher yet)

May 28, 2009 12:41 AM
Jason Crouch
Austin Texas Homes, LLC - Austin, TX
Broker - Austin Texas Real Estate (512-796-7653)

Alan - Frankly, I probably would have more, but I got a bit sidetracked with the birth of our fourth child, and the passing of my mother-in-law.  Life takes precedence over social media.

May 28, 2009 07:39 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

i noted the birth of Crouch to the 4th power... but I'm sorry to hear about your mother-in-law.

People make plans, and god laughs.

May 28, 2009 07:43 AM
Jason Crouch
Austin Texas Homes, LLC - Austin, TX
Broker - Austin Texas Real Estate (512-796-7653)

Alan - I'm over 17,000 on Twitter now. :)

Dec 05, 2013 06:32 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Jason - yowza... I still don't 'get' twitter.... but clearly there are those who find it beneficial.

Dec 06, 2013 12:14 AM