Here is Jim Stroud’s TruLondon interview of TwitJobSearch director, Bill Fischer.
Bill is using Amazon’s S3 cloud facility to suck in every Tweet on Twitter and analyze it for job-opening relevancy. S3 gives him the huge storage and internet bandwidth necessary at a reasonable price (he told me on the order of a couple thousand dollars a month).
His said his software could semantically deconstruct even indirect job related Tweets like “Hey Joe, we have an opening in my department”, which when combined with Twitter location and profile information can add up to a job posting. For the unemployed a real-time post like that can mean the difference to getting the job or not.
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