You may have guessed by now that we at Blackbridge are following the Twitter zeitgeist with some zeal. And not without good reason. Anything that balances bite-sized engagement with guilt-steeped addiction has to be worth following. So, the minute we found out that there was a specific job listing angle being covered, it felt like an early Christmas. Twithire is a free job listing service for Twitter that’s geared towards helping employers promote roles to the ever-growing base of users worldwide. Content is geared very much to the US/development & technology community at the moment but it won’t be long before there’s an interesting tussle for supremacy. Tweets are free and anyone can post a job by creating a Tweet-key (go to www.twithire.com/key for details).

All of this geek-tastic excitement got us thinking, of course, about the unique way Twitter communicates with an audience. It’s easy to assume that a gold rush for a job-board style exchange exists. But the real beauty of Twitter is that any job-board can feed their roles to the site and build a following, much the same as they send candidates alerts by SMS. Nothing new in that, just a new spin on a familiar theme, you could say. But corporations can now feed their roles in the same way. The means to the market, combined with the messaging, is back in the hands of the employer.

As we enter the grip of a miserable recession abound with freezes and redundancies, the early-adopting recruiters will gain access to their audiences for free. Now that really is something worth thinking about…