Twitter for Recruiting: Part 1
“I don’t get Twitter”.
That’s the first thing I said to myself when I first discovered the social media platform Twitter. I can easily recall thinking “Oh great, another social media site,” as I didn’t quite understand what Twitter was or what value it provided to me and my business. According to Wikipedia, “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.” Even though I thought the cross between instant messaging and blogging as a communication tool was an interesting idea (and the fact the updates even show up on your phone), I still remained skeptical about using Twitter as I questioned “Why would anyone be interested in knowing what I’m doing every second of the day?” So for months I left Twitter untouched.