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Twitter is not as smart as Google: @BizStone

“We do not recruit G.P.A’s at Twitter” courtesy @BizStone

Dropping out of college and attaining less than average – self described as   terrible high school  142342_40363ce1a7grades, he conceptualized, developed and sold Blogger to Google which he says that he would not have been hired into. Blogger started as a side project for name…., as did Twitter. So what is it about his ideas that are so centric to today’s technology based society?

I’m not quite sure it’s that difficult. Biz figured it out without a college degree and states it beautifully in this video. “Twitter is not a Fad.” And I think it’s safe to say neither is he.

This interesting piece is in conjunction with the marriage between LinkedIn and Twitter. You can now swap spit better known as status updates between LinkedIn and Twitter. A few things come to mind for me here. Is LinkedIn really the place I want to share my Twitter updates? Maybe, but I guess that just depends on how transparent I want to be to the world. @BizStone says: “More and more, people are finding that the persona they create for themselves on the Web is part of their resume in many ways,” This is true, but I’m not too sure I am 100% comfortable with the idea just yet.

I’m still contemplating in my head if LinkedIn has “gotten it” or if they are just a little scared that Twitter has taken some of their daily UV’s. After all Twitter is engaging, real time and creates live connections…

I agree with Biz here. Twitter is not a fad. What about you?

Read the full article and see the video here: @BizStone breaks it down

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3 Comments

  1. Jeri Hird Dutcher

    Hi Ryan,
    I'm Jeri, to whom you replied on Twitter yesterday with,” LOL. Is this you?” and gave a link to a forgery screen. I can't reply to you directly because you're understandably not following me. I just wanted to assure you that whatever that red screen is, it's not me. My site is http://www.workwrite.net, and on Twitter, I am @resumegenius. I am a job search coach and resume writer who doesn't know enough about Twitter to forge anything. I still have trouble occasionally getting the real stuff to work! : ) So, in case that screen not being me means something important for your Twitter account or your site, I wanted to let you know. BTW, I found your name on the 25 most influential recruiters, and that's why I'm following you. Congrats! It looks like great company.

  2. ryanleary

    Hi Jeri – Unfortuantely the account was hacked an dsent DM's to a bunch of people. Surely was not me. I received a bunch of those too. It should be all fixed now. Thanks for the follow and reads as well. I am always free to connect.

  3. ryanleary

    Hi Jeri – Unfortuantely the account was hacked an dsent DM's to a bunch of people. Surely was not me. I received a bunch of those too. It should be all fixed now. Thanks for the follow and reads as well. I am always free to connect.

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