Want The Inside Track To A New Job? Start With Twitter

In the past year Twitter has become the darling of news media -- remember how the news broke when US Airways flight 1549 crashed into The Hudson?

Janis Krums from Sarasota, Florida posts the first photo of U.S. Airways flight 1549 on Twitter from his iPhone . Thirty-four minutes after Janis posted his photo, MSNBC interviewed him live on TV as a witness (see video below). News coverage at Google. Live video at Fox News. TV reports suggest that everyone survived the crash.

Then in June, when Twitter wanted to shutdown for some maintenance, the US Government asked them to delay the maintainers because Iranians were depending on it to get out news during the Iranian Election Crisis.

So it should come as no surprise that businesses are now saying that Twitter is becoming one of the most important tools you can use to land a job.

From a post on my blog FunnyBusiness

According to the latest statistics only about 5% of the population is on Twitter. And, yet, it is being touted as one of the best places to get a job. In the past couple of days everyone from CNNMoney to the WSJ  have run stories about the success the unemployed have when they just tweet away looking for work.

For baby boomers this means its time to take a trip to Twitter to experience its culture, learn its customs and figure out how to unleash its power to help you achieve what you want.