Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on November 8th, 2014

This week’s mediocre results from TWITTER may signal a shift: is the world getting tired of the shallowness of so much of what is reported? Is 160 characters enough to truly get  a message of substance across? Is the world starting to look for just a bit more substance than the headline/billboard-speak that we have all become so used to?  Surely some depth and insight is needed in a world driven purely by headlines and sensationalistic reporting. Twitter is grappling with flat growth. It may be a sign.

This week we were discussing the dreadfully misleading shallowness of real estate intelligence and data at the Real Estate Expo. So much of the emphasis on figures and reporting represents 1% of the market.  It is an ongoing outrage that in an industry that fuels billions of dollars worth of commercial activity the reporting is so weak, generalized, sensationalistic and inconsistent. This will change and improve…..there is hope.