Since mid April, there were 105 million registered users on the microblogging website, and now approximately 3,00,000 new users register every day
Melbourne:
Ever thought Twitter could help you bag your dream job? May be. Britain-based Laura walls landed a top public relations job in Brisbane, Australia, after she sent out a 140 character Tweet.
The Tweet which grabbed the attention of Red PR's managing director, Fleur Madden-Topley, simply said: "Hi, I'm a UK consumer PR looking to move to Brisbane & think my skills would make me a great fit for Red - DM me if that sounds of interest!"
"It was nothing revolutionary but the novelty factor of using Twitter to send my pitch definitely made me stand out from the crowd and proved I was switched on to what was happening in my industry - I knew she was recruiting," The Courier Mail quoted walls, as saying.
The Brisbane PR boss was quite impressed and responded quickly.
"Social media offers a vital global link between people in business and an excellent method for employers to source new talent. If people are interested in your business they will follow what you are doing on Facebook or Twitter," said Madden-Topley.
She went on: "While Twitter can certainly be the downfall of people who trip up with careless comments, it is also a fantastic tool to promote yourself.
"Employers are instantly connected with people who are already making moves to be involved in their business.
It cancels out going through long, laborious CVs before finding someone who may move to the next step. "Laura. . . much impressed me with her knowledge, enthusiasm and her flair with this type of clever, succinct communication. She has been an asset to my company, so much so that I am sponsoring her for permanent residency."
Madden-Topley also said she checks out the social sites of anyone applying for a job.
She explained: "You would be amazed what you pick up on people from their Facebook accounts.
"It is a fly-on-the-wall insight into people's personalities - something that a two-minute across-the-desk interview doesn't really do."
Meanwhile, Twitter set yet another milestone Sunday with a message posted by a Japanese user becoming the 20 billionth tweet of the four-year-old website.
User "GGGGGGo_Lets_Go" from Tokyo tweeted something hard to translate. The graphic designer said it was part of a conversation between him and someone else about a third party.
But moments later he was inundated with congratulations from Twitter users across the world soon after the website announced it surpassed the 20 billionth tweet, New York Daily News reported citing PC Magazine.
"It looks like I posted the 20 billionth tweet. I'm getting replies from people all over the world. It's scary, What are the chances? Maybe I'm going to die. Is it more amazing than winning the lottery? I thought it was a joke," he told Computerworld.
GGGGGGo_Lets_Go tweeted: "I'm grateful and humbled by those who are visiting because of my 20 billionth tweet. Be warned, I tweet a lot about baseball."
Twitter hit the 15 billion mark two months ago. Its 10 billionth tweet was only five months ago four years since the website started. Since mid April, there were 105 million registered users register every day.
In February, the service said it sees about 50 million tweets a day - roughly 600 tweets a second. The website hit an all time high at the end of the Japan-Denmark World Cup game: 3,282 tweets per second.
LANDMARK TWEET
Twitter set yet another milestone on Sunday with a message posted by a Japanese user becoming the 20 billionth tweet of the four-year-old website. User "GGGGGGo_Lets_Go" from Tokyo tweeted something hard to translate. The graphic designer said it was part of a conversation between him and someone else about a third party. But moments later he was inundated with congratulations from Twitter users across the world soon after the site surpassed the 20 billionth tweet.
TWITTER SCIENTIST
About two months ago, the chief scientist at Twitter decided he wanted his daughter to go to a school that encouraged her nightly desire to conduct science experiments on the kitchen counter, a fun place where art and math flourished in small classes. He couldn't find that school, so the scientist decided to create one. With six other founding families, Abdur Chowdhury found a building, hired a head of school, brought in teachers for the Alta Vista School, which opens on September 7.
SITE DOWN FOR HOURS
Site was out of commission for a couple of hours early Sunday for some of the roughly 100 million users around the world. Instead of the usual screen that allows people to send a tweet, the home page indicated the site was down for" planned maintenance" but was expected to be back in a few hours. It was accompanied by a cartoon. The maintenance on Sunday and it was to last about five hours. Some tweets appeared to start moving again after about 90 minutes but some users were still unable to send messages hours later.
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