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 millionTwitterersorTweeple.
(For the loyal MySpace and Facebook fans, yes Facebook is still 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. Similar to the Web, Blogging and Wiki, Twitter has also sparked a whole new legion of words – its own Twittonary. Click here to see a list.
I will be posting regular Real Estate Trend Tweets on Twitter so you are interested you can follow me @Swanepoel |
