Information About Spain From Twitter and RSS Feeds

I started using Twitter a long time ago and used something called autofollow. One word, Don't. It allows spammers to send you rubbish all the time. Social media is now the best way to get up to date with relevant information about what you are interested in and it this article we will look at getting information about Spain. If you are reading this you should be interested in Spain because you have an interest in coming here.

I live here and I follow my market and keep on top of what is going on so that if anyone asks me a question I can answer it from a position of knowledge rather than guesswork. I use various tools to do this, one of which is the rather wonderful Google Reader (If used right) but another is Twitter.

On arriving at www.twitter.com there is not much to see. Nothing happens as you are not following anyone to begin with. You need to get inside the head of Twitter in order to do anything useful. This is done by using tools rather than the twitter interface itself. Tweetdeck is my favourite and i use it to follow and send messages whereas I use Google reader to follow search terms mentioned in Twitter. To explain further:

Let's say you are interested in Valencia where I am.

Go to www.search.twitter.com and put in the search term "Valencia". Now the actual results are nothing to write home about. There are flights to Valencia, Valencia in the States and other Valencia stuff in Spanish. You probably wouldn't want to scroll down go onto page two etc etc etc So you need to use the little orange icon in the top right corner. That is an RSS feed. When you click on it it will give you the option to follow in Google Reader. Google Reader is brilliant because you can have one line summaries of everything and check every mention of Valencia on Twitter since the last time you looked with links to articles, pictures and loads more.

So why do you need this information? The simple answer is that you can find absolute gold dust there. You might find cheap property for sale, stories and photos about days out in the region, people already living here who you might want to follow and strike up a relationship with. In other words you have lots of your own investigators giving you intimate background knowledge of the place.

Do you get it yet? I place a lot of emphasis on the importance of Twitter as an information gathering tool as that information is relevant, highly up to date and very useful. Search engines have great information about the topics you are interested in but it may be really out of date as getting to the top of a Google search takes time. Twitter is much more immediate.

Get yourself on Twitter and blog about your impending move to Spain and I will find you and follow (I will then of course hope to sell you a house because you will trust me due to the fact that I have given you so much great information) My twitter id is @grahunt for you to follow.

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Maria Hunt is a blogger and estate agent in Valencia, Spain. Houses For Sale In Spain is his website. He has recently written and recorded interviews with many people who have come to Spain to live successfully and these interviews can be found at The Audiobook Series

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