I’ve just started to test a job posting on Xing. Their site (which is much like LinkedIn) requries that you are a “premium” member before you can advertise jobs. Unsurprisingly, there is a cost for this, but its only a few Euros. Once you are registered you can post your job adverts and set up the budgets. You are charged 49 cents (Euro) per click, but you can cap each advert on clicks. A job is live for 90 days (which might mean a lot of clicks!)
It all seems pretty straight forward, but I’ll do a more comprehensive review once I get some responses to the adverts.
Having been a twitterer (is that in the Oxford English Dictionary yet?) for a while, I cant help noticing that I get a lot of followers who clearly have no interest in me, and are only looking to “expand their following”, as they seem to have that as their objective, either for some “I can show you how to become a millionaire with the secret of the internet they don’t want you to know, but I will sell you for only $50 a month” scheme. This is a shame as it will potentially lead twitter into chaos and confusion. (OK maybe I’m guilty too to a degree) . So how do you try to keep you follows pure. Well, I have a few tests I like to keep in mind when I scan down my daily list of “new followers”:
Number of posts: if your follower is following 500 people but only has 1 post, its out.
Photo. Is there actually a photo. if they cant be bothered or dont know how to add a photo, they’re out
Number of followers: If they have no followers (especially if they are following 500 people), out they go
Profile. too many “get rich quick on the internet” schemes, out they go
So I guess, the ratio of those that follow me to me following them is about 20:1, not a good sign for the future of twitter.
