Things I’ve overheard on Twitter:

More than a few folks have emailed me asking about Twitter, my thoughts on it, and why we added the “twitter this” button everywhere. Those are all good questions.

I wish I had some definitive answers. I’m still not convinced what it’s ultimate purpose will be, but one thing it has done for me is give me the ability to monitor the thought streams of “My Friends” on Twitter. While it’s true that some of that though stream is just plain silly, a good number of interesting nuggets of thought and links to sites I might not have found otherwise have come as a result. I use a Mac only application called Twitteriffic. It makes it simple to monitor the “micro blogs” coming from these friends. Here are a few examples:

Robert Scoble: “Many devs I meet are going to Macs and won’t likely to switch back to Windows to develop apps (at least in startups).”

Paul Terry Walhus: “http://www.austin360.com/ne… is today’s Austin American Statesman piece about twitter”

dan7 (Australia): “checking out the 100 year photoblog. http://www.shorpy.com/”

Michael Arrington: ” ok, news is announced. press release (our first) will go over the wires in about an hour. http://tinyurl.com/29sg3a” (Strong Words, and an apparent April Fool’s joke)

Michael Arrington: ” first joost commercial…i expected something a little more exciting. http://tinyurl.com/2aklgv” (Joost)

Jason Calacanis if twitter down time is any indication they are going to be 2x as big as EBAY”

Loren Nason: “working on a project blogger site”

Paul Chaney: “This could get addictive. . .for a while at least”

Ines Hegedus-Garcia: “Reading: “The JottBlog Experiment” (http://tinyurl.com/2qyqtg)”

Pat Kitano: “Jeff Turner ResPres has gotten me into twittering… he has his pulse on everything techneat.” (thanks, Pat!)

ResPres: “Having Fun” at the new Sellsius site: http://sellsiusrealestate.com”

Unfortunately, Twitter does not give you access to information older than 24 hours in your friends stream. These are just a few tidbits from the past 24 hours. Where is this Twitter buzz leading? I don’t know for sure. The point is, I don’t need to know for sure. It has already provided value and a way to connect with people and ideas I certainly would not have otherwise. Heck, CNN started streaming breaking news there, so who knows what’s coming next.

Should you check it out? Sure. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. If you do go sign up, come back here and try the “Twitter This” button. Then you’ll know why we did it.

Can I guarantee you’ll “get it?” No. I’m not sure I do.

It’s all about cropping.

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One of our favorite clients, Sarah Cooper, just wrote a great post on AciveRain. In it she talks about how to get the most you can from your RealEstateShows.com account.

Sarah writes:

If you’ve read many of my blog entries, you know I use Real Estate Shows and that I wring all I can out of them. I don’t like to spend money on something I don’t use. I also like to spread the news when I find something that works for me.

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Thanks, Sarah!

Steve Inmon may have coined a new phrase with his post today titled, “Virtual Baby Tour.”

This blog post showed up in my Google feed reader today. Steve is celebrating the birth of a new baby and decided to use RealEstateShows.com as part of the birth announcement.

Congratulations, Steve!

Julie Ferenzi is a brand new real estate agent in Plainfield, Illinois (and my “apprenctice” in the Project Blogger competition). She has decided to target new home developers in her Living In Plainfield blog posts.

Julie is also Mom to four beautiful children. She wrote about the travails of a working mother in a post on ActiveRain today:

Simply put, my objective over the next 40 days (May 1st) is to include the information, price, and photos of every builder in Plainfield on my Living In Plainfield real estate blog page. I’ve even gone as far as to showcase my enthusiasm for this effort by creating a couple of Real Estate Shows for my site. I have been to 3 builders in the last 2 days toting a 3 year old and 6 month old baby with me. I must say though, these beautifully staged models stand up well considering the kind of abuse that a 3 year old without a nap can dish out!

Oh yeah, the life of a real estate agent is glamorous.