Is Twitter a job board? Today I found myself in the middle of an argument after I tweeted about a conversation I had with William Fischer, the man behind Twitter job search engine http:\\www.twitjobsearch.com .
TwitJobSearch reads every message coming off micro-blogging sites like Twitter and Google Buzz, analyzing them to see if they are job opening related and if so does research on the tweeter’s profile to get location and other details.
It then does all sorts of things with those messages. Hint: it’s about getting lots of job seekers to their sites and then to get advertisers to pay to make their job ads appear high up for those seekers.
In other words, it’s a real-time job board based on primarily Twitter itself being an underlying job board. Except that after tweeting to that effect, I got messages back to the effect that I got it wrong. That Tweets about jobs shouldn’t be considered real job postings and thus Twitter can’t be considered a job board.
What do you think? Is Twitter a job board?
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Twitter is a platform for delivering and accessing Tweets – and content on the web. It's certainly possible to use this platform to build a job site. Twitter is already used by job seekers to find jobs. But to say that Twitter *is* a job board isn't any more accurate than saying Google is a job board. It isn't – it's a tool.
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Hi Jeff. The counter-argument was that the jobs being tweeted are so unreliable and the candidates as well such that it's not 'possible to use this platform to build a job site'.
Not saying you aren't right, just that there is legitimate debate.