Twitter is social network/web-based SMS service that connects you with everyone you know and lets them know what you’re doing at any given moment. It’s really more of a way to broadcast messages without them being important enough to warrant an email. For example, I can go to Twitter or text from my cell phone and update my status to: “I’m at the movies right now seeing Batman” or “I’m eating pizza”. Or if you’re more of the recruiting mindset: “I’m looking for Perl Application Engineers with strong software virtualization experience”.
Now how can one use this in the realm of sourcing? There’s not a lot of information here that you would normally find like on a Linkedin page. But a minimum amount of information is there like a short bio, location, and even work. Here’s an example of how this can be used:
You search a phrase like “work company”, where “company” would be the name of the company you are trying to target. You can also add a location like state. For instance you can enter in “CA” for california.
If you find someone that you would like to contact you can either follow their status messages or “tweets”, or you can send them a SMS text to their cell phone. You can be the judge if this is something you are comfortable with.
- Mark