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We Are The Twitterati

By @mizzle, @gingerw, @HouseChick, and @tcar

Recently, our friend Greg Swann referred to some people in RE.net as The Twitterati. Who exactly he was addressing, we don't know. It didn't sound like a compliment. But damn. That's a great name! We're claiming it.

We are The Twitterati. The coolest clique on RE.net.  Are you a member?  Maybe you are, without even knowing it.

If you're in this picture, or can identify everyone in it, you're absolutely Twitterati.

• If you are a master at responding to EVERYTHING in 140 characters or less … You are the Twitterati
• If the first things you do when you sign up for things like blip.fm or dailymugshot is look for the auto-Twitter-notifier …
• If you won't sign up for any social network that DOESN't auto-notify Twitter...
• If your friends call you by your Twitter name IRL (In Real Life)...
• If you've known for forgetting the D at inopportune moments...
• If you've ever been in a Twhirl vs. TweetDeck debate...
• If you secretly look up other people's Twitter Grader, then try to scheme out ways to bump up your grade...

If you make a business decision to purchase 600 bumper stickers with your twitter name ONLY on it because you know SOME people will "get" it … then YOU and those people who "get" it are DEFINITELY the Twitterati.

• If you ever leave a comment on a blog post using your Twitter name and a link to your Twitter profile instead of your name and website … You are the Twitterati.
• If people tweet how excited they were to have met you...
• If you have Twinkle, Halo, Twitterific and Twitter Mobile on your iPhone, and are still wishing for something more ideal...
• If you've ever dropped the F-Bomb on the CEO of Zappos.com via Twitter... (sorry about that)
• If people tweet, wondering where you're at when you haven't tweeted in a few hours...
• If people follow you just to join in on the twittercizing...
• If you've ever worn an @Mizzle tie...

• If you follow @NARSocialMedia on Twitter, and think it's for real, you're NOT Twitterati!
• If you've ever used the term "wiffle bat orgy" or "more cowbell" you are Twitterati...
• If you can never again listen to "It Takes Two" from M.C. Rob Base without laughing...
• If you're married to Mr. HouseChick or Mr. Mizzle...
• If you own both twitternames @mrhousechick and @mrmizzle...
• If you have to write your twitter name under your real name on nametags to have your friends recognize you, you might be Twitterati.
• If you ever replaced your Twitter Icon with something that said e-Twit, you need help … I mean you are the Twitterati.
• If you know the qualifications for e-Twit without having to look it up...
• If people who AREN'T in the real estate business know your Twitter name, and EVER reference you by it …
• If your children have ever called you by your Twitter name …
• If you ever tried to explain Twitter to someone only to give up half-way through the conversation...
• If you've ever declared a Twitter-hiatus and you only lasted 45 minutes in the cold silence of a Twitterless world, you might be Twitterati.
• If you secretly wish for Fail Whale schwag, you might be Twitterati.
• If an item you wear in your Twitter avatar is now a social object...
• If you have jewelry custom made with the @ symbol, you are Twitterati...
• If you've ever been in a blip war...
• If you miss McLovin...
• If you're thinking of lobby-conning Inman Connect New York, just because you want to go to the parties...
• If you've been to an Altos Research After, After Hours Party, you're Twitterati for life.

And finally, if you have been to more than one Altos After After Party, you're not just Twitterati, but Twitterati SUPER elite.

Are you Twitteratti? Tell us why.

Keeping up with the times

No I am not talking about the newspaper, newspapers really are five years ago.   I am talking about life in the web 2.0 world, on the planet earth, I think.

You see Facebook is so six months ago but it is still cool so I use it.  Digg is very three months ago and I don’t use it so much any more.   Zolve is kind of last week but I really have not gotten up and running on it.  There was a new one this week that I signed up for and have friends on but I don’t remember the name of it and already lost my password. 

Linkedin is kind of on again and off again but for right now I use it because it is cool enough.  I can’t remember if Naymz was this month or last, and I can’t remember my password either.

I know some of my top friends on Facebook.  I googled their names and now I know who they are.  I do really love my friends so I am not complaining.  I am not sure what to do with all of the sheep that have been thrown at me but at least when I get super poked I feel loved even if I don’t know the perp, who is probably just a top friend.

I really should be on utterz all day long but the problem is that I just don’t have anything to say.  I know that it isn’t about having something to say and I should talk anyway but I really don’t want to.  I spend all day on the phone as it is, but just the same what will people think?  They may mistake me for a web 1.0 agent or just think that I am not very cool.  (Have you noticed that the people who do the most talking also do the least listening?)

Twitter is very a few months ago, but it is cool again so I use it every chance I get.   Twitbin was very popular last week, but this week I really should be using spaz.AIR if I want to keep up with the cool kids who may think less of me than they already do it I don’t load it on my computer soon.  Spaz is sitting on my desktop because I am kind of waiting to see what I should be doing next week.  No one will notice that I kind of missed a step and I’ll still be cool.  People follow me on Twitter unaware of where I am going and where they will end up if they follow me. (Insert maniacal laugh here)

Today I have been invited to join Cre8buzz, which I guess is beta but it will give me buzz.  According to the note I got about it,  I need buzz.  Used to be I couldn’t work if I had a buzz.  By the end of the week, everyone I know in the re-bloggoshere will send an invite. I feel the love and bask in it’s warmth.  crebuzz is so next week.

Thats all for now.  Thanks for listening I feel so much better. I am going to take the pills the nice doctor gave me and I know I will be feeling better soon. . . . oh I had to log off to do it but I sold some real estate this week.  I am such a dweeb. I realized I did not have to miss any of the action.  I have facebook, twitter, IM, email, SMS, and of course email on my BlackBerry. (I really wish it came in Pink, which is the new orange, or is it red?) Hate to admit it, but I am not cool enough yet for an iphone.  I should consider buying a jitterbug, but they are sooooo 2018, no one gets how cool they are yet.

 

The Man Who Has Something To Say

I would like to make an important announcement here on the hot dog stand cleverly disguised as a blog.  I think I may have gotten that backward but it really doesn't matter.

If you don't know Jeff Turner . . . . I have no idea how to complete that sentence.  The purpose of this post, which I am publishing at 10:40 CST (that is the current time in fly over land where all the really boring people live) is to share with you Jeff's thoughts over the last 22 hours.  Follow the links and you can see more of Jeff and hear what he has to say about some of his many thoughts:

  Here is my cup, put some kool aid in it:
Overdressed for Seesmic
Re: Re: Re: Overdressed for Seesmic
. . an another
And More . .  

There is a gap in the broadcasts, we recently learned that Jeff sleeps for part of each 24 hour broadcast period.  He is working on recording his thoughts as he sleeps and looking for some technology that will broadcast them to the Internet so that we can stay updated at all times.

Here at the Real Estate Weenie, we are such fans of Jeff's that  we are working on turning Jeff's thoughts into a full length movie, or possibly an ebook.

Prostitution on the Internet

This is one of those very rare times when I won’t include  a picture with my post.

I do admire the way the Active Rain network supports freedom of speech.  On the other hand I wouldn’t want my local content right out there with posts like this one:Indian Escort

There really isn’t a need for me to say more.  The post has been flagged by members of the network but it will most likely remain on the Rain.

The post was taken down about an hour after I wrote this.  Jonathan Washburn of Active Rain stopped by to say Hah!

Jon, I took a screen print

(Click on print to make it larger)

Thanks for taking it down.  It was posted at 2:30 this morning.  It was up until this post was written.  There has to be a way to monitor the network without inhibiting freedom of speech.  The post was flagged by members the first time I saw it early this morning, yet it remained up.

Over Heard in the Re Bloggosphere

"I have not joined one single social network today"

Kristal Kraft
Denver Real Estate - Relocation

Can you go for a day without joining a social network?