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| Re: "Teenagers do not use Twitter" |
| Author: | Ruffski |
| Date: | Monday, 13th Jul 2009 14:09 |
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I'm vigorously applauding this 15 year old for his honest and frank appraisal of the hyped up service offered by Twitter. I'm not a user of Twitter although I have spent a fair amount of time looking into it and it's benefits, but to be honest I got a little sick and tired of hearing about people's lunches and seeing people 'bigging each other up' for their tweets. It may be that I am actually becoming a dinosaur, and that Twitter is to be a main channel of communication in the future, but I just don't see it's merits and I too wonder how a recruiter is to differentiate themselves from the hundreds of thousands of other recruiters in order to get people following one line job adverts which carry no detail and so could well be a waste of time. I like seeing detailed job adverts which actually sell jobs, can candidates really be bothered seeing a job title on Twitter and then following the link to the job board it's advertised on when they could simply run a search on a job board and see all the jobs they could want in the same place? Does the service offered by Twitter really meet the hype or is Twitter just somewhere for individuals who are bored to brag to the rest of the world about their sandwiches being filled with the finest Atlantic prawns?
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| Re: "Teenagers do not use Twitter" |
| Author: | Mubin |
| Date: | Tuesday, 14th Jul 2009 10:31 |
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Hi Ruffski,
You make a great point of following job boards that just post links to job adverts, this is pointless and redundant.
Most people will only follow you on twitter if you have something useful to say, something that they may be interested in.
I don't mind hearing what you have had for breakfast/lunch if for the rest of the day you give me some insightful information as well.
Job boards that are setup with twitter accounts that just spam recent listings will see their followers decrease slowly and steadly. Job boards that use twitter as a spring board for their blogs will see an increase in traffic and credibility, it is not just twitter that you have to use but also all the other resources available to you.
If a job board has a blog or information section where they post lets say "Top 10 mistakes that people make in interviews", that is directly relevent to all your followers and also to their friends so not only will they read it, bringing traffic to your site but they will also "retweet" that message and share it with their friends.
unfortunetly very few people have found how to implement this properly as of yet, but i personally love twitter search real time results on what is happening on the web and in the worl.
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| Re: "Teenagers do not use Twitter" |
| Author: | Ruffski |
| Date: | Tuesday, 14th Jul 2009 11:07 |
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Hi Mubin,
Thanks for the response. I'm normally an information sponge, but i just don't see how a few words strung together in a tweet can provide me with any information I can't get from the sources which I already have in place. I honestly have not seen a single tweet that makes me think Twitter is anything other than a fad. Linked-in on the other hand is a very useful tool and one that helps me gather a good amount of information and contacts. I think to get anything out of twitter, you'd need to spend a fair amount of time following tweets and as yet I just can't see how this is possible when we have day jobs to do which involve getting out meeting clients and candidates and managing teams of people. Perhaps I need to look inwardly at my knowledge of Twitter and maybe invest in the UK Recruiter guide. Maybe by doing this my opinion of Twitter will change, although from what I've seen so far I really doubt I'll ever become a fan of Twitter (A twit?) unless I suddenly develop an interest in what's being eaten by the boys and girls who do lunch.....I'm sure I wasn't this pessimistic a few years ago! |
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| Re: "Teenagers do not use Twitter" |
| Author: | Luke Collier |
| Date: | Tuesday, 14th Jul 2009 13:07 |
| Views: | 41 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Other | | URL: | http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=188680 |
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Hi Guys
I think you are missing the point and the main advantage Twitter has. Twitter is becoming a real-time search tool. The idea being that you go to say http://search.twitter.com/ and type in a Job Title. You then get a real time result on that Job Title. It might be a candidate that says ' I am a Sales director' looking for a job.' OR it might be a client saying 'does anyone know any good Sales Directors'
Obviously the search can be done on anything - ' what is the weather like in North London' - someone will be definetly twittering about it!
This is why Google are interested in it and where the real value lies. A real-time google results search.
I am not one of these people that says it will change the way recruitment works etc. but I can see some benefits as an alternative online tool.
The other reason Job Boards feed alot of their jobs onto twitter is to get them listed on sites like http://www.twitterjobsearch.com/
This is a vertical real time search engine like Workcircle or 1Job but specifically built for twitter. Same principle applies - you get the most recent jobs posted whether from Job Board Rec Con or Company.
Not sure if I have sold it to you or not but hopefully shown you why some people are interested in how it pans out.
Cheers
Luke |
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| Re: "Teenagers do not use Twitter" |
| Author: | Ruffski |
| Date: | Tuesday, 14th Jul 2009 13:37 |
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Hi Luke,
Thanks for the post and further clarification of Twitter's benefits within. From what I've read it sounds like I may have missed a trick or two, but I would still suggest that business people using Twitter (Not sure if this is the minority or majority of users, suggest it's probably the prior) will also be registered on Linked-in, gumtree, jigsaw etc. What your post has done is confirm that I need to invest further time in discovering the possible values of Twitter, but my big dilemma will be how we could work Twitter into our business structure (Who uses it, how often they use it, what processes they follow in it's use etc.) to get the best possible return on the time invested in it's use. It does sound like something which will require a good amount of time searching through to get none sandwich related information of value, although as I said, I'll try again as I've been wrong before and no doubt will be wrong again!
Thanks again for the informative post.
Ruffski |
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| Re: "Teenagers do not use Twitter" |
| Author: | Luke Collier |
| Date: | Tuesday, 14th Jul 2009 13:46 |
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Hi Ruffski
I think your approach is absolutely spot on. So many businesses rush in and appont a Twitter Zsar or Facebook Manager purely because they feel they need to be seen to be doing something.
How many Facebook pages and Twitter Accounts are left redundant because people didn't realise the commitment needed to keep them up OR overestimated the benefit they bring.
No-one is missing out on anything by taking a back seat and looking where all this is going. I first signed up to Linked-In about 4/5 years ago and watched it grow. I didn't properly start using it as a business tool till about 2 years ago.
Therefore you are right to see what benefits if any, what resource if any, what ROI.
The people who say there is nothing in it - are wrong
The people who say it will change the world - are wrong
It will do something inbetween and it will be interesting - that is about it.
Luke |
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| Re: "Teenagers do not use Twitter" |
| Author: | Bel Grant |
| Date: | Saturday, 18th Jul 2009 22:47 |
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I use it as my 'just published' article on various websites index and to build up a readership. I don't use it for announcing trivia
I think you just need to work out what you want to achieve from it and use it accordingly.
ps. I had a boiled egg for breakfast :) |
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