Field Guide to Twitter
(Updated September 2009)
Twitter is a way of sending short bits of information to your subscribers. The messages are limited to 140 character at a time, called a Tweet. Let your clients know what you are doing for them, post short descriptions of new listings, keep your team on schedule. Learn more from the following articles and resources. (And be sure to follow NAR Info Central and NAR's other Twitter accounts!). (A. Siudzinski, Senior Information Specialist)
What is Twitter?
What is Twitter?, (Twitter.com).
So what is Twitter?, (Houston REALTOR® Online, Sept. 2009).
Twitter basics, (California Real Estate Magazine, Aug. 2009).
Let's Twitter?, (REALTOR® Magazine, Sept. 2008).
What is Twitter? A beginners guide, (Social Media Today, Aug. 11, 2008).
Why Use Twitter?
Adding Twitter to my crazy busy life, (RISMedia, Apr. 30, 2009).
Have you figured out Twitter?, (Clean State Blog, Jan. 22, 2009).
You registered for Twitter. . . Now what?, (BRER Real Estate Marketing Blog, Jan. 12, 2009).
"The what & why of Twitter" -- Social Network Review, (Active Rain, Mar. 31, 2008).
Using Twitter to listen to your customers, (Future of Real Estate Marketing, Mar. 26, 2008).
Twitter and Real Estate
Time to tweet? With every tweet, provide a takeaway, (REALTOR® Magazine, Sept. 2009).
The relationship between Twitter and real estate?, (Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, Apr. 21, 2009).
Top 10 tips for real estate agents using Twitter, (PropertyAdGuru.com, Feb. 1, 2009).
It starts with a 'tweet' - 12 ways to build a following with Twitter, (RISMedia, Mar. 24, 2009).
Everything you wanted to know about Twitter for real estate, (Cyberhomesblog, Mar. 2, 2009).
Twitter and commercial real estate, (Sibdu Blog, Feb. 10, 2009).
Real estate is local. So is Twitter, (ErionShehaj.com, Jan. 7, 2009).
All A-Twitter, (Florida REALTOR®, Jan. 2009).
eBooks & Other Resources
eBooks.realtor.org
The following ebooks and digital audiobooks are available to NAR members:
Twitter Top Success and Best Practices: Twitter Experts Share The World's Greatest Tips (Adobe eReader)
Twitter Marketing Tips (Adobe eReader)
Twitter: Free Social Networking for Business (Adobe eReader)
Twitter Means Business (Adobe eReader)
Twitter Power (Adobe eReader)
Field Guides & More
These Field Guides and other resources in the Virtual Library may also be of interest:
Field Guide to Social Networking for REALTORS®
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