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What’s there to tweet about? I’m asked that question frequently. Folks not yet on Twitter seem to think they aren’t interesting enough to share their lives in 140 characters.

Employers are turning to social networking platforms to supplement their traditional methods of searching for talent.

Twitter is one such site being used more and more in the hiring scene. It allows people to post quick, short text messages of up to 140 characters.

Companies have long used search-engine marketing to lure online consumers. Now they’re looking to draw job hunters the same way, while scaling back on competing media such as job boards and newspapers.

“Where do your best candidates come from?

That’s the million-dollar question that the AIM Group, experts in online media revenue, wanted to know for their annual Recruitment Advertising 2009 survey. They asked 75 recruiters, HR professionals, managers, and recruitment agents where they are spending their limited ad budgets to find out what is and isn’t working for them.

Twitter, which we have already covered on Baitbox got huge amounts of press last week when actor Ashton Kutcher beat CNN to be the first Twitter profile with one million followers. This has now set the precedent in terms of showing the world how media is changing – single voices can challenge large corporations voices [...]

If you thought that Facebook was growing at an amazing rate, Twitter’s is growing 3 times faster than Facebook!
“Compete’s stats for the two sites show that Twitter grew an enormous 76.8% in March alone. That’s on top of the 1,300% year on year growth rate for February 2009 – or to put it another way, [...]

Twitter is aimed at personal users, but Gartner says that companies must wake up to the positive implications of employees’ tweets, which are to their own advantage.
As businesses struggle to consider the uses of microblogging platforms, such as Twitter, in the workplace, Gartner last week highlighted four ways in which organisations are using Twitter.
“Despite the [...]