I’m still trying to “get” Twitter, but realize there is potential here for recruiters and sourcers. I signed up for an account a few weeks back, and have been trying to use as a sourcing tool to find new candidates for various positions.

Twitter asks the question “What are you doing?” As a user of Twitter, you create a short profile of yourself, and update the Twitter community with what you are doing, whether it be sourcing for candidates on your computer, making dinner or away on vacation. People who use Twitter seem to be very addicted and make frequent posts that give you insight into their lives and who they are. There is an option to “follow” people on Twitter where you get daily feeds of there posts.

Getting back to recruiting, there is a search feature in Twitter that is useful for recruiters. The only search functionality is by key words. For an example to show, I ran a simple search using the key word “developer”. I received 1,700+ results from Twitter profiles. The profiles and details listed are limited to short amounts of information, so there is very little to go by, but regardless, there ARE developers here if you are a Technical Recruiter or Sourcer. No profiles I found had any contact information listed or even full names, but did find profiles with links to personal pages and their blogs:

What is your take on Twitter? Am I missing something? I want to be able to utilize the community effectively.