What is Twitter?

● Twitter has around 45 million users
● It enables businesses to connect with the right audience
● You can gather real-time market intelligence and feedback, positive and negative.
● You can build relationships with customers and parties interested in your business
● More than 50 million applications run on Twitter's API including recruitment specific sites.

Depending on your intended audience, other micro-blogging sites to consider include Sweetter, Plurk, Tumblr, Jaiku and FriendFeed.

Why use Twitter?

As a Company wanting to attract talent, you could use Twitter to monitor your company's reputation, watch the competition for opportunities and you could listen and respond to foster your community. Twitter could be used to stream your current vacancies, link to career content or update information on events and open days.

As a Jobseeker Twitter can be used to find job openings using key words searches and using it's myriad of applications, like TweetAJob, TweetMyJobs and TwitJobSearch, have vacancies delivered straight to your inbox.


Contact Winning Impression to learn more about micro-blogging and it's place in recruitment.