Twitter will be the next big thing for recruiters, I promise you - when we all learn to use it properly. At the moment we are thinking “How can 140 characters allow me to say what I want?”
As the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal (1623-62) famously wrote in a letter to a friend "I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter." (This quote is often misattributed to Mark Twain, by the way).
And here is a genuine Mark Twain quote, “Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.” (67 characters!)
Twitter could just turn out to be your next best networking tool to LinkedIn if you utilise it properly. For example, if you want to grow your followers then try
http://www.topfollowed.com . It’s a great tool to build reciprocal links. Register on
www.Twellow.com to be found – it’s the “Yellow Pages” for Twitter. For more tips on how to utilise Twitter to best effect then ask Warren a question about it by emailing
warren@recruitmentmatters.com or, better still, attend our course on
Social Media For Recruiters.