by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
I didn’t understand the allure of Twitter until I went to Inman Connect. I originally thought it was “text-chat” until I read Greg Swann’s post about microblogging on Twitter. Now, I offer Mortgage Rates Report, the “lock or float” service, on Twitter.
Click this link for my Twitter feed.
Here is what you can expect from the Mortgage Rates Report feed on Twitter:
1- Market sensitive updates- I’ll only tweet you if there is a move in the market with advice to float or lock.
2- Communication at least once a week.
3- I won’t be responding to questions on Twitter- just broadcasting market sensitive information
Todd Carpenter says:
That might be the first worth while use of twitter I’ve seen.
January 12, 2008 — 4:12 pm
Greg Swann says:
This is simply brilliant, and I deserve no credit at all. I wish I had thought of this.
What you have done is taken an ordinary Twitter channel and and turned it into a mass-media broadcast outlet — a radio station. If you hew to the plan, nothing but mission-critical mortgage news in a timely-fashion — with the TinyURL links back for more information — you will have created a category-killer, a brand new thing under the sun.
I am proud to know you, sir.
Andy, Teri, is there a way to make Twitter feeds echo to IM clients? For this application, that would rock.
January 12, 2008 — 4:50 pm
Brian Brady says:
“I wish I had thought of this.”
…but you did (the 500,000 channel television set)- you just weren’t thinking of a CNBC mortgage channel
January 12, 2008 — 4:56 pm
Teri Lussier says:
Very creative thinking!
Many twitterers appreciate the conversation of twitter, and don’t like to follow the shameless self-promo kings that only tweet to drive traffic to their blogsites, but refuse to communicate. Having said that, @BreakingNewsOn is a news aggregator that tweets only breaking news stories and is tremendously popular because of it’s usefulness. Since you are giving real time information, what you are tweeting would likely fall into that usefulness category. Plus, you are already a RE.net rock star, so you have rabid pre-tweet following.
>is there a way to make Twitter feeds echo to IM clients?
I can’t answer that for sure, but I think so. Andy will have to help out with that one. Believe it or not, I do limit my twittering to website only- no IM, no text.
January 12, 2008 — 8:26 pm
Morgan Brown says:
this is a brilliant idea. really, really brilliant. bravo.
January 12, 2008 — 11:49 pm
Todd Carpenter says:
>>is there a way to make Twitter feeds echo to IM clients?
I don’t know, but another idea would be to burn the Twitter RSS feed over on Feedburner. Then set up there “subscribe by email” tool. Then let readers subscribe, but suggest using the text email address from their mobile phone. Mine is my-phone-number-@vtext.com
Do IM’s have their own email addresses?
January 13, 2008 — 12:05 am
Rhonda Porter says:
I didn’t see a use for Twitter until reading this post. Thanks, Brian!
January 13, 2008 — 8:27 am
Matt in Atlanta says:
Great idea!
January 14, 2008 — 9:37 am
Alex Stenback says:
Been doing this since Dec 10th – best practice is to add your twitter feed to the sidebar, or some other unobstrusive but easy to see spot on your blog.
January 14, 2008 — 11:54 am
Andy Kaufman says:
Hey everybody, sorry it took me so long to chime in here, but I’ve been wrestling through a bit of a hardware issue, but better late than never, right?
Brian, congrats on finding a use for Twitter. Part of the beauty of twitter is the simplicity of it. Using it as a broadcasting tool is a great option and if that’s the way that you want to go with it, cool with me.
>>is there a way to make Twitter feeds echo to IM clients?
End users can choose to customize their notification preferences and if someone wants to get your notifications via IM, that can easily be done.
I’m currently up to my eyeballs in amateur Twitter hacking and I know that Brian saw it because, he’s part of REnetTalks, a real time REnet conversation tracker which is powered by Twitter.
Check it out:
http://myeastbayagent.com/renet-talks/
& my post om MEBA for more background
http://myeastbayagent.com/2008/01/12/introducing-renet-talks-v10-alpha-of-course/
I think I’m only scratching the surface here & I’d love any input that you all would care to share.
–Andy
January 15, 2008 — 4:44 pm
DJ Swanepoel says:
I think your idea is great and Twitter is the perfect medium to post updates and information. Above all, Twitter is about sharing and receiving information and provides an excellent way of meeting with and networking with other professionals in the real estate community and potential clients.
I use Twitter to send out updates about The Real Estate Wiki, share my thoughts about what’s going on in real estate, quirky stuff I think is fun and other work I’m doing, which is how most of us use it.
However, Twitter has had some problems lately and they’re not fixing them as soon as man y of us would like, so consider Friend Feed as another option in addition to Twitter.
July 3, 2008 — 1:13 pm
Brian Brady says:
“However, Twitter has had some problems lately and they’re not fixing them as soon as man y of us would like, so consider Friend Feed as another option in addition to Twitter.”
Good advice. Twitter does dive at the worst possible times
July 3, 2008 — 5:42 pm