Twitter Me This, RecruiterGuy

Written by RecruiterGuy

Tuesday, 29 April 2008 09:07

Is there value in the random twitterings across the globe? Are they as random as they appear? Last night I was thinking about how someone new to Twitter might just feel like they've just entered a party and walked up on a conversation that's been in progress for 20 minutes... but where no one is sober. An example could be a quick snapshot of my Twitter page this morning:

	TheRecruiterGuy found his gym shoes this morning - and is taking them to work!! about 1 hour ago from twhirl
	pamclaughton Morning Twitterville! Great article on Google's biggest threat...mobile advertising, from BusinessWeek, http://tinyurl.com/68lk7z about 1 hour ago from web
	taxtweet blog update Small business IRS survey and tax tips: The IRS Small Business/Self-Employed divi.. http://tinyurl.com/6km8cc about 1 hour ago from twitterfeed
	twittes Expand Twitter 140 word limit and tell the complete story ? winandmac.com: Sin Descripci http://tinyurl.com/6zjwcp about 2 hours ago from twitterfeed

To the untrained eye these may look like incomplete thoughts or ramblings of complete strangers. But in reality they are the incomplete thoughts and ramblings of complete strangers that are networking. Well, in most cases, anyhow.

Four20 made the observation not long ago that there were essentially 5 Different Types of Tweets. They boiled down to the following: The Question, The Answer, The Pointless, The Content and The Message. Of the above, we see a few of these - and how we assign them is quite relative to our relation (or lack thereof) to each twittering contact.

From a networking perspective this is great - if used properly. From a marketing perspective this is genius - if your homework is done. For example, for those of us that are geeky (or nosey?) enough to dig around we can find out what the majority of folks are talking about on Twitter. One tool that proves particularly useful is Twist.

From fellow blogger, carterfsmith from Kicking And SCREAMING:
According to Twist, which displays trends on Twitter, Facebook is discussed a lot more than MySpace (at least in the past week).
And there's a whole lot more being discussed about Facebook than LinkedIn, in the same time frame, too.

Of course, I'm finding that I'm very fond of the live updates (it caters to my fruit-fly attention span) that I discovered this morning from Robert Merrill - ironically enough by reading a twitter he sent. Robert earned his pay today when he informed his followers that by typing in "track KEYWORD" you can easily be notified of conversations where that word is mentioned. A terrific tool to find out what twitters are twittering about with your name in them.

So at this point I suppose the question becomes... How will you use Twitter?

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Carter F Smith said:

So how do you see these sites based on the growth stats (either by Twitter Twits or from MarketingCharts.com, which reported that MySpace is up 8%, while Facebook is up 98%, and LinkedIn managed a 319% increase in the same period?

I think of LinkedIn as more suit-and-tie, while Facebook seems more polo and dockers or jeans and a t-shirt (or maybe that's MySpace :-).

What do you think?

April 29, 2008 | url

Linda said:

I've always thought of LinkedIn as the suit, Facebook as the khakis and polo, and MySpace as flip-flops with shorts (shirt optional.)

April 29, 2008

Robert Merrill said:

Its a pretty interesting concept.

I am blown away by twitters SIMPLICITY * POWER. I mean that in a few keystrokes... from computer, cell-phone or whatever I can broadcast/communicate/help/request and socialize with either close friends or literally hundreds, thousands or millions.

Its simplicity is awesome. Two seconds to start, a mental paradigm shift to send status updates to "the void", and a willingness... even a desire to join in conversations with like-minded people from around your neighborhood or the world.

Its power distills on you... over time this becomes a TRUSTED group of friends... people that you can query, you can push, you can ask for help or challenge... people who can help you have fun on an otherwise boring evening... even people that might bail you out of jail.

Oh, and a big LOL to your terms of use

April 29, 2008 | url

Ravel Lee said:

Hi

Since you recommend LinkedIn previously, I thought you will be interested to
know that my company, eGrabber (www.egrabber.com), has just
released a LinkedIn to Excel Automation Tool.

This tool enables recruiters to capture and import all LinkedIn profiles
from LinkedIn search results into Excel with a single click!
There is no programming to do. This tool can be given to admins
and others to help create an initial database of prospects.

The tool automatically opens each individual profile and imports
every attribute from the LinkedIn profile into a column in Excel.
All formatting is automatically and professionally handled.

Recruiters can quickly shortlist candidates and forward the Excel
list to hiring managers. Links within Excel allow hiring managers
to directly access resume. This is a real time saver!

For more information, please visit
http://www.egrabber.com/resumegrabberpro/linkedin_driver.html

Ravel Lee
Business Development Associate, eGrabber.com
408-705-1106
408-516-4571
Developers of resume sourcing tools for 12 years

April 29, 2008 | url

RecruiterGuy said:

Huh? Wha'?... Sorry, I was too busy playing with Stuffr. (http://www.getstuffr.com)

May 01, 2008 | url

Carter F. Smith said:

More on Twitter on LinkedIn . . . check out (and please pass on) http://tinyurl.com/4tu6cn - also at http://twitter.com/carterfsmith/statuses/813823529 (if you want to copy-paste).

PS -- cannot believe I didn't follow you after your link-love above . . . I am now!

May 17, 2008 | url

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