Finding Tweighbors on Twitter
By NikNik · January 6, 2009
You’ve arrived! You’re on Twitter, you’re tweeting, but are you strategically growing your network? And I’m not talking about following all of someone else’s followers. It’s definitely valuable to learn from your peers, but following every other agent in the Twitosphere is not necessarily going to help you build relationships and grow your network within your own market area.
There are some great techniques and tools, however, which you can employ to get to know the twits in your neck of the woods. And once you find and follow these local twits, it’s your job to befriend them with your interest based experiences, professional expertise (transparently), and above all…being helpful. Be a friendly conversationalist, gradually gaining trust and building relationships…that may lead to offline connecting and potential sales leads when the time is right.
Here are a few tips for using local search strategies on Twitter:
Twellow Hood – Find and follow others based on your geographic location (tweighbors). Enter your location and you can view a list of Twits in your area to follow. TwellowHood also provides you with an extended bio of 2000 characters.
TwitterLocal- Search a specific location and/or the surrounding area. View and follow local twits or obtain the RSS feeds for an area.
Twitter Search – You can search for clients you already know by name and follow them. Enter a specific city name or neighborhood and view who’s talking about your market.
A couple of advanced tips for you:
Yahoo Pipes: Take the RSS feeds from several locations you’ve searched and mash them up into one feed. Then you can scan your reader quickly for new Twits or start conversations with locals you didn’t already know.
Tweetdeck- Download it and create groups based on locations or keywords. With Tweetdeck you can display several groups at once. For example, (1) all tweets, (2) local tweets/list of friends, (3) a specific location/city, (4) RE topic like relocation.
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NikNik,
Great tools and tips, especially the local search. I think so many times in Twitter people just have a network of friends in other states that aren’t going to be able to help their local core business of real estate and getting local is where the business will be happening.
Joseph- Precisely! Go local! RE Twits shouldn’t complain that Twitter is not helping their business or growing their network when they are only tweeting to other RE.net twits.
This is a GREAT article. You are scuh a great writer, as well! I sent this link to our social networking group at our office. Thank you!
Thank you Karin! Let me know if your group has any questions about these tools and strategies! Happy to help or send you a tutorial!
great post, been looking for a way find locals for sometime and this info consolidates everything I need to know, Already use tweetdeck and now it makes it even more useful
Hey NikNik I use most of these twitter tools except the Twellow Hood I am going to check out that out today. Thanks for the tips.
RE Twits that complain itdoesn’t help are the lazy ones that don’t want to commit to the work that needs to be done. It is just not going to fall into you lap from the real estate gods.
NikNik, Great article.
Have you tried http://NearbyTweets.com? Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
Cheers Greg
Some great ideas here. I’d like to add that utilizing Twitter lists. The new feature is super powerful for finding your communities.
Check out Hyperlocal Twitter Tools Here:
http://hyperlocal101.com/5-hyperlocal-twitter-tools
It works. I have try all of them. ???????????