Young whippersnappers

[jethrien]

Ok, I'm officially old. I am boggling over a resume that claims, among other things to be proficient at Twitter.

Twitter.

How exactly is one proficient at Twitter? You can successfully type words? Maybe throw in a "without offending lots of people"? How did this get to be a job qualification?

Do you also have a really sweet MySpace page? Maybe you're the mayor of our museum in FourSquare.

Get off my lawn.

Comments

[oblvndrgn.livejournal.com]

Twitter has been on the decline over the past year; it gets more usage these days with fewer users, the people who are on it like it, but everyone else thinks it's stupid. On the other hand, the concept of microblogging is almost definitely going to stick around.

As @TrinVix says below, it gets a lot of usage in marketing these days, and has actually been seeing a lot of use in B2B channels, which is sort of fascinating to me. It more or less approximates an RSS feed for some purposes, I suppose. Companies releasing many short communications to their dedicated fan base appear more 'human' as well as get some incredibly targeted messages out to precisely the audience that would buy in.

As for the original topic, given how Web 2.0 is bandied about everywhere these days, listing comfort with social media in general seems like a fine thing for a somewhat techie person to list on a resume just because it means they're cued into tech trends. Twitter specifically? Still dumb.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it's not a tech position, either. It's a contract-writing position.