Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category

Why Twitter Works

December 27th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

In 2008, my first impression of  Twitter was that it was really kind of dumb and useless.  It asked “What are you doing?”  and many people obligingly (and boringly) answered this question – having a grande half-caf latte in Starbucks, watching a TV show, etc.  Who cared?  Very few.  NOT me!

But, a friend convinced me to try it for a couple of days, and I discovered that I was very wrong about Twitter being dumb OR useless.

Twitter is excellent for many things and has opened a whole new online world for me: (more…)

Job-Hunt’s Top 10 Job Search Twitter Lists

November 29th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Over the past couple of months, I’ve spent time researching and compiling Twitter Lists, a new Twitter capability that is currently still in “beta” (not quite ready for prime time).

Job-Hunt’s Top 10 Twitter Lists are presented in order (below) by the total number of Twitter accounts they are following today, with one exception at the end.  I expect the number of accounts in each list will probably increase as I discover new accounts in the future, so the number of accounts in each of these  lists may be different when you view them.

The accounts you find in each list should be consistent with the title of the list.  For example, the largest and most popular list, Employers-Recruiting, contains ONLY employers or in-house recruiters for employers.  It does not contain job boards or independent recruiting/staffing company Twitter accounts.   The job boards are probably on the Job-Listings list (if they Tweet their job openings), and the recruiters are probably on the Recrutiers-and-Recruiting list.  Assuming they passed the “sniff test” (below).

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