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Was Someone Just Hired on Twitter???

Interesting. Earlier today, Justin.tv on Twitter sent out a request for help to the “Twitterati”:

Looking for someone to help scale the site STAT. Will seriously pay you a suitcase full of cash.

Within 3 hours, they had received over 100 responses:

Justin: thanks for all the support! we’ve had like a hundred people offer help!

I’m not sure how many of the responses were from the 325 people who are currently following him on Twitter but I’d say that 100 responses in a few hours is a great response for a job posting that took all of 10 seconds to post.

This is why I think Twitter has an opportunity to challenge craigslist. This was a very efficient, targeted classified ad. It took little effort, it didn’t cost anything (these types job postings can cost a couple hundred dollars). Is this considered spam or is this an effective use of a new communication platform? Should Twitter get compensated in some way if this request resulted in justin.tv finding someone for the job?

links for 2007-03-27

links for 2007-03-25

  • Fusion View » Mind Map (Twitter)
    “…you can glimpse into the lives of so many strangers and as a participant you can share what you’re thinking or doing at any given moment. It’s an act of defiance – or desperation? – against existential angst and the aloneness of the human condition.”
    (tags: twitter culture)
  • Desperate Curiosity » Blog Archive » Do you Twitter?
    “…with Web 2.0 technology, we are as clueless as our stone age ancestors when it comes to answering the question of existence, but the fact that we stand more fragmented than ever before this question, makes it all the more heavy.”
    (tags: twitter culture)