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There are a lot of third party applications available for Twitter to enable you to use the site better, and as those of you who use the site all the time will know, there is lots of information or links published in Tweets. As I mentioned in my last post, Twitter is launching new search capabilties with an improved search engine to allow you to find all those links and then group them, making them easy to find. When I search Twitter I use #tags, so that I can follow emerging trends in areas that I’m interested in and this allows me to keep up with the latest Tweets on that subject, but I’d never thought about using Twitter to search for jobs, until now.

A new search engine called TwitterJobSearch uses semantic intelligence, link crawling and crowdsourcing to track job and recruitment tweets. It searches Twitter and pulls out tweets it believes to be job adds, meaning you can search for any type of job in any location and the search engine will display the tweets that are relevant to your query. By searching for sales jobs, IT or accountants you’ll get a list of jobs vacant. It is not perfect, as I searched for sales jobs in Brisbane and got a news story in the results, it was still very good.

TwitterJobSearch Job Search Results

TwitterJobSearch claim that “over a 180,000 jobs have been advertised on Twitter in the last 30 days and indexed by them” so this makes it a comparable alternative to the major recruitment web sites.

If you have never thought of using Twitter as a free recruitment site then now is the time to try, if you’re looking for new sales staff or to fill any role you have vacant then this is a free resource for you, you’ll not only be promoting the job to your followers but it will also be picked up by job aggregators such as TwitterJobSearch.

So go forth and advertise.

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Everyone Loves Twitter

Everybody is talking about Twitter and suddenly there are instant Twitter experts popping up everywhere, Celebrities, politicians, entrepreneurs, business leaders and everyday users are flocking to the service en masse, generating a frenzy of activity and attention. So why are people flocking to Twitter? Evan Williams, Twitters CEO has the answer:

“Twitter lets people know what’s going on about things they care about instantly, as it happens, In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.”

A survey of Twitter users from MarketingProfs, a US based research company, backs Mr. Williams’ views. On a scale from 1 to 5 (with 1 for strongly disagree and 5 and for strongly agree), the phrase “I find it exciting to learn new things from people” averaged a score of 4.65 and “I value getting information in a timely manner” averaged 4.58.

“Above all, people on Twitter are truly motivated by learning new things and getting information real-time, as it’s developing,” said Ann Handley of MarketingProfs.

With Twitter growing at over 1,086% per year, it’s expected that Twitter will have over 18.1 million users in the US by this time next year and at that rate, the entire Australian on line audience will be using Twitter, ohh just imagine the noise then!!

Twitter predicted growth in 2010

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