If you are under the delusion that Twitter is just a site to post and read short messages about what people are upto <my thoughts> then you are quit wrong! Well, not entirelly because this medium IS used to convey how you are feeling. It creates ambient awareness: People read how you think about things, your opinion and your experiences and they take these into account in their own lives.
Companies also found their way to Twitter, they tweet information about activities, new products or 'just' what they are upto. They try to connect with consumers by 'pushing' information to them, and consumers push this further to their friends and so on, creating 'word-of-mouth' <as said earlier, still the strongest form of advertising> Companies use tweets as banners and at the same time they 'pull' information from us to implement this in their business strategies or listen to customer problems and solve them. Speaking of problems, its hard to find a job nowadays, companies already use twitter to post vacancies and now Maarten Dik makes life a bit easier..
That unorganized potpourri of vacancies on Twitter, that can be better must have been the thought of Maarten Dik, a first year student human Information Design & Strategy. Together with his teacher he started the site Twitterbaan.nl last December. This site automatically collects all the vacatures that appear on Twitter, though now categorized and searchable on place name and branche.
As we speak there are already more than a hundred thousand jobs on this site, from job banks or directly from companies.
"Job searching and social media forms an integrated whole anno 2011."
States Dik in daily paper De Pers. article
