If you have followed DurhamLuxRE for the last several months you may have wondered about the growing list of followers are of the DurhamLuxRe Twitter Account. As I write this there are 455 followers but there is a good chance that when this gets read there will be more.
There are three basic groups of followers. The first group are Durhamites that want to keep up with the Durham luxury market. The next group consists of real estate agents from all parts of the country. The way I acquire these followers is to find them and follow them. Many agents will then reciprocate and follow us. One motivation for doing this is to spread the word about Durham and its luxury market and inform them of my willingness to take referrals. The final group is people that follow because they have something to sell you especially those that market scams that tell you how to get more followers. These I basically ignore and don’t follow back.
If you also wonder if I regularly read the London Guardian, (see the previous post) I don’t. I do subscribe to one of Google’s free services called Google Alerts. Whenever the search engine catelogs any story or post on the topics I’ve set up, it notifies me by email. The Guardian story came to me via an alert set up on Durham Luxury Homes. Occasionally it will serve up something on Durham in the UK but those can be interesting too.
Oh, the tangled Web 2.0 we weave.
