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Re:Nowhere to Hide: Assessing Your Work Reputation Online by yalurker on Monday February 21, 2011 @03:45PM (#2247089)
Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how your twitter influence is important to any job except for paid endorsements.

If I'm hiring an engineer, a project manager, or a designer, I care about their ability to do the job, not about how much they influence their twitter followers.

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Re:Nowhere to Hide: Assessing Your Work Reputation Online by vrish88 on Monday February 21, 2011 @04:28PM (#2247270)
There are numerous benefits to having someone with social influence work for your company. Say your developer has a large following on Twitter.

- Any problem that they don't know how to solve can be solicited to x number of people. - If they encounter a bug in 3rd party software that your company uses and publicly bitch about it, the better chance you have to get a timely fix. - If your company uses/creates open source software, it is more visibile, and there is a greater likelihood that more people will contribute to it. - They market your company. - They attract more desirable hires.

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