Twitter.com

Another great social networking tool is Twitter!

Twitter (www.twitter.com)

Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user’s profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default; however, senders can restrict message delivery to just their followers. Users may subscribe to other users' tweets – this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers or tweeps. (Source: www.wikipedia.org)

Twitter is a great tool to use for communication.  You simply follow people or companies and get constant updates of information.  Simply put, its an information sharing site.  For the job seeker, I believe that Twitter is best utilized by following companies that you are interested in working for, job board sites, and people who offer credible job search advice.  The one good thing about Twitter is that you don’t have to “tweet” anything; you can simply create your profile (which is limited to a user name and a brief description of who you are if you want to add that) and just be a follower.  Once you have created a profile, you can access the Help Centre to guide you through tweeting language, etiquette and other questions that you may have.

*Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post on information about Facebook

-Sunny & Sassy