And you thought Twitter was just for following the banal thoughts and menial deeds of celebrities!
Twitter is yet to come of age and it will be third parties that drive its success, such as the new jwork listings service from Twitter Job Search – you enter in the search box the kind of job you want to do and where and the results list all recent Twitter feeds that fit.
Sure, most jobs listed on Twitter have to do with sales, computers and all things geeky but it’s early days and the crowd sourcing phenomenon that Twitter is becoming has yet to be seen in anything like its full glory. Once the entire planet is yakking away Twitter may well become the next Oracle, pipping Google to the post for the role of Virtual Omniscience.
Job searches on Twitter are still pretty limited though, I just put out the feelers for ‘ninja assassin, New York‘ and got the following message:
