What's Twitter?

Its Micro- Blogging. The most popular is Twitter among all Micro-blogging service. It is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually 140 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.

One of the biggest values of Twitter is the relationship building/ networking, and connecting. Its a very powerful marketing & community building tool.
The messages on twitter can be sent via text or instant messaging, e-mail, MP3 or the web.  Twitter can be used to quickly get out the latest news and really useful information. A new position in the co.; referral programs, employee news etc.
So is it  move away blogging which is more of a journal type entry - who has the time to read all that? and welcome twittery? I still like to blog so I will keep that..

How's Twitter useful for recruiting / Sourcing? I had been using four good tools.

1) search.twitter.com (Formerly Summize)- It searches tweets from any twitter users.

So lets search who's talking about "python" with in 50 miles of 07645 (my work area) zip code in the last two months and I always see job ads form career builder so I would negate that.


 
 So inputting"python -CareerBuilder.com since:2008-06-01 near:07645 within:50mi"  I get so many people "tweeting" about python. Isn't that interesting?






If you aren't familiar with boolean operators for twitter use the Advanced search tab in home page OR maybe you want o get familiar with the search operators in twitter

Now it doesn't end there as you can RSS (Feed for this query ) to your reader and automatically see twwets talking about "python" your company , about you ....

2)Tweetscan

Boolean search: -, OR, and quotes works for Tweetscan
Include/Exclude users by putting the username or -username in the User Search box.

3)Tweetbeep

TweetBeep is like Google Alerts for Twitter. It gives you twitter alerts by email when a tweet matches your search

4) twithire.com


A Free Job Board for Twitter.  On logging in twitter;n you choose a category and generate a key which links you to your twitter page where you enter the Job Title, Company name, Location and URL for the actual posting.

Twitter must be boring for many as why the heck I want to know what you had for breakfast today but there's more to it about getting personal, networking, socializing, employee/ment branding ,news update etc.
This ones here to stay.