I stumbled upon another interesting tool last night via a posting from a fellow realtor on Trulia: Twellowhood. It gives you the ability to do a geographic search of people using Twitter.com. While it has taken me some time to see the value of Twitter to my business, with use of Twellowhood, it might begin to serve some purpose in zeroing in on local news or networking opportunities. There is also a feed site that works with Twitter called Monitter.com. This site enables you to get "tweets" directly from twitter by narrowing down the entries based upon key words that you choose. I think this is an interesting concept, due to the massively overwhelming, and sometimes ridiculous entries on twitter. Being a "micro blogging" site, Twitter allows for no more than 140 characters in any message. Quite frankly, I don't think I will ever be interested in someone's minute-by-minute feeding schedule. If you have ever experienced twitter, it may make you question the statistic that only 5% of the population has some type of mental illness or personality affliction. Anyway, finding value in social networking sites, such as Twitter, through tools such as Twellowhood and Monitter, does interest me. As I experiment with these sites, I will pass along any great business-related ideas. By the way, I had oatmeal this morning.