Using Twitter to Learn About Real Estate

A good resource to use in studying real estate, wanting to know how others do real estate, or if one is in the real estate game, and needs to know where to go for resources, Twitter is a good knowledge base. Go to Twitter, input in the search field words such as legal forms, real estate forms, real estate, housing, homes for sale, and related words, and you will find many messages to learn from. Professionals in all areas share what they think is useful and functional on Twitter. More than just a social utility, Twitter is a professional's library, workshop, network. Although it appears to be two way communication between one party and another, or one party and the Twitterverse as a whole, all can view and comment on the posts made on Twitter. All can also decide to join up with others and be their followers. This is good for marketers, and anyone promoting something, such as real estate, or real estate forms. Just on the subject of real estate forms, on Twitter, one can download links leading to a directory or home for legal forms. One can view announcements of real estate workshops, workshops on how to use and fill out certain forms, workshops on how to shop for real estate. Real estate agents like using Twitter to advertise homes on the market, or homes they want to sell. With over 23 million users on Twitter, according to one estimate, there are a lot of potential followers for every interest, including the topic of legal forms, lease forms, real estate forms. A useful application on Twitter, is the ability to save messages to a favorites list. Therefore, a user has a constant chain of messages to refer to surrounding a particular topic, and can click on that saved topic chain from the user's list of favorites whenever that is desired, to view updates, or to comment on updates. It is easy to add links to a Twitter post, and using short URL makes it easier so that more message can be created, in a field that is limited to 140 characters. These short and useful messages are an open source of interests for all. On Twitter, a user can save not just individual messages to a favorites list, but also entire subjects can be saved and listed on the Twitter page sidebar, so that it is easy for the Twitter user to click on the topic and begin reading the messages. In conclusion, go to Twitter to get information on real estate forms, or lease forms before getting swept away in the trend of buying or renting real estate. Let Twitter be your homework