TwitterPated? Not!
Real Estate Tweets Mostly Lack Engagement
Twitterpated? Not me! Not after I just spent almost 20 minutes scanning through the real estate twitterverse. I've been experimenting on Twitter and observing the ettiquete for almost 6 weeks now, and in my opinion...
the real estate niche is the most selfish there is on Twitter! Sorry for my use of such corny terms as "TwitterPated" and "Twitterverse", I'll translate for those of you who have better things to do with your time than to know the meaning of these terms. What's "Twitterpated"?, according to the Urban Dictionary:
- To be completely enamored with someone or something
- An enjoyable disorder characterized by feelings of excitement, high hopes, recent memories of interludes, giddiness, and physical overstimulation which occur simultaneously when experiencing a new love
...Hey, I didn't say it, the Urban dictionary said it! Anyway, I'm not enamored with the real estate investors and agents I've found on Twitter. In the almost 2 months since I got on Twitter to research how entrepreneurs and businesses are using it, real estate professionals seem to be just about the worse case of "I'll talk at you, but don't expect me to talk with you". Special note: The Internet marketing niche just doesn't count in this conversation... as a matter of fact, I'm not even going to go there many of those belong in their own planet where they can roam free! After deciding that it was time for HouseflippingOnline.com to get on Twitter, I spent about 30 minutes bringing up real estate pros on Twitter...
(Tip: There's a search box on the right of your twitter page...You can do this by doing selected searches like, "Prince Georges County", "House flipping","Short Sales","Denver real estate" ... you get the picture). Anyway, in about 30 minutes of such searching, and scanning through their "tweetstreams" I rarely saw anyone retweet anyone else, or engage anyone else on tweeter with direct conversations. If you're a Twitter beginner, retweet (RT) is the twitter version of quoting others and linking to their twitter page simultaneously. It's often much appreciated by the person you're Re-tweeting. And usually, if you want to have a direct conversation with someone else, say @FlippingCoach for instance, you would tweet something like:
"I just found @FlippingCoach and he has a great website every real estate investing beginner should check out"
Advise for Real Estate Tweeters (or Twitter-rers)
In any case, my advise (or is it "advice"?) to you is that if you're getting on Twitter, first you have a home base website on your profile that people can link back to, so that when you have content, you can share it with your twitter followers.You should also commit to sharing and communicating with others, through direct (@conversations) and by RT-retweeting valuable information that others share. Don't be a Twitter Snob! Anyone can subscribe to a bunch of RSS feeds of HUD, banks, market research sites and regurgitate that information back to everyone else...unfortunately, it's not cute when everyone is doing that all at once. Someone must have taught them that's "how to become an authority in the Social media" scene. Oh well...
Anyway, you can follow me (or HouseFlippingOnline.com)on Twitter, and let me know what you think about my rant.
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