Comments on: Tweetlister Promotes Properties Over Twitter

By: Marty Lachance

Marty Lachance — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:04:42 +0000

Twitter is a Square-Peg technology for Real Estate. It just doesn’t fit.

You’ll always hear from Realtors that it’s working for them. The only way to know for sure is to try it yourself.

In my personal experience in working with Realtors, 100% of them who have tried it, dropped it within 6 months.

Marty
Utopria Inc.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:02:14 +0000

Tweetlister is a nice idea – i’ve made an test and used it to promote my villas….

Thanks for the article…..

By: Tweet or No Tweet...

Tweet or No Tweet... — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:27:56 +0000

[...] June 9th. Joel Bursem weighed in on Tweetlister as did Nik Nik over at MyTechOpion who suggests you could use other, better [...]

By: Ed Kohler

Ed Kohler — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:48:19 +0000

Getting people to a listing is great, but what happens if they can’t afford that property or it’s one bedroom short of what they need? Don’t send people to silos on the web.

By: Gahlord Dewald

Gahlord Dewald — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:29:36 +0000

Hey Joel,

I’m totally with you and others on how a tool like Tweetlister could be used for spammy behavior. Luckily, it’s mighty easy to unfollow spammy Twitter users so the incentive to spam needs to be weighed against irrelevanting oneself. A quick review of the #tl hashtag identifies some pretty egregious examples but I didn’t want to seem like a bully by calling out names in the column.

I also agree with you and Nicole that much of what Tweetlister does could be done with a shortener and scheduler like Tweetlater (reviewed in my previous column). Tweetlister’s regularly/repeatable scheduler would simplify this however.

The main trade-off is on better link analytics with bit.ly or cli.gs vs regular rescheduling with Tweetlister.

I think not owning the conversion form is also something to keep very much in mind, which I mentioned in the column as well.

Thanks again for writing this up.

Gahlord

By: R. Giesbrecht

R. Giesbrecht — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:51:15 +0000

It seems over 90% of the Realtor website blogs that have an automatic listing load tool to their blog use that and only that. Little or no original content. I hope Twitter doesn’t devolve to that either.

By: Real Estate Site Guide

Real Estate Site Guide — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:39:58 +0000

I agree that this could be prone to horrible abuse- but those accounts will be quickly unfollowed. I think the regular twitter user who is actually using account will be posting enough so that the repetition may be beneficial-

Also didn’t anybody notice that the tweet used # hash tags, so you’ve got the link value from twitter, m.twitter.com, hashtags coming to that page and then u can list your more details page and virtual tour page. Your virtual tour page can be a youtube vid that links in the description back to your site. I’d say this would be an effective way to get link value. Never mind that tweetlister also has a property search system as well so extra traffic. Win win win, if you don’t abuse it!

By: Paul Gaddes

Paul Gaddes — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:31:46 +0000

I think using tweets to promote listings is a bit over the top…for whatever reason REALTORS have embraced social media as a form of self promotion. I am on the fence about this issue. My clients have lots of methods for me to get listing information to them other than via Twitter.

By: invest in property

invest in property — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:31:23 +0000

I think this is a great idea and can really help you sell a house this could make a really difference. I wanted to invest in property earlier this year but was fed up of seeing the same properties in the estate agents window.

By: Clinton, UT

Clinton, UT — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:42:55 +0000

To me, it seems a bit of a stretch to use Twitter but maybe that’s because my clientele isn’t as plugged in as most. Personally, I find it annoying to have all these things and I see them as being less effective uses of time than things I might otherwise do.