For those of you who know what Twitter is, you were probably expecting this from me.  For those of you who don’t know what Twitter is, there is a great video below to check out.  Some call it a “micro-blogging” platform, but I’ll admit, it’s much closer to a big group chat.  Best of all, you only have 140 characters to get your point across.

How is this beneficial?

For those of you who are real estate professionals here in Portland, there is a huge tech community (check out Silicon Florist to get an idea).  Many tech companies bring employees in from out of the area (Vidoop just had a major migration).  Employees coming for jobs = housing demand.  Wouldn’t it be nice to “know” someone from some great, concise conversations who could really use your help?  Twitter is (one of) the answers.

For those of you who are community members, it’s a great way to get to know your neighbors.  Through TwitterLocal, you can search for people within a specific geographic area.  Get to know them online, then have a group TweetUp (a Twitter user meet-up) or simply attend any tech event in town to see nametags covered in @usernames.  As of this writing, Portland is the 14th largest city on Twitter in terms “tweets”, so there’s a lot of people to get to know.

How to participate

Simply go to Twitter.com and register for an account.  Then go here and click on the “Follow” button below our image.  Anytime we update, you’ll be able to see it!

While you’re at it, feel free to join me on there as well.  As our contributors start writing, they’ll let you know how to find them on Twitter too!

The video

I promised a video explaining all of this, and here it is…

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