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HOW TO: Land a Job at Twitter

/09/24/wow-twitter-to-raise-100-million-in-new-funding/">raised $100 million in September 2009 and another $200 million earlier this month.

Between that period, Twitter roughly tripled its employee base to more than 300 and disclosed plans to “have a small number of people on the ground in Europe in 2011,” a spokesperson said recently.

We’ve received inquiries from a number of you about how to land a job at the San Francisco-based startup and what it’s like to work there. We’ve compiled your most frequently asked questions here, including information about what kinds of jobs are available at TwitterTwitter, what the company culture is like, as well as a few tips about getting hired.

If you have interviewed for a position or worked at Twitter, we’d love to hear about your experiences and advice in the comments below.

There are many different departments at Twitter, thus many different kinds of positions and skill sets are needed for each. Twitter is currently filling out its business development and sales, engineering, finance, HR, legal, mobile, operations, product management, support and user experience and design teams. Other (seemingly non-hiring) departments include executive (management) and communications.

Twitter is very vocal about the quality of its corporate culture — and so are its employees. If you’ve ever followed a new Twitter employee during his or her first day on the job, he or she likely finished that day by tweeting that it was the “best first day of work ever,” or something similar.

And if you’ve ever asked an employee what they like best about working at Twitter, they’ll likely tell you about how most employees stick around on Friday evenings to spend time with their colleagues, listening to the company’s leaders talk about ideas developed in the past week over drinks and snacks.

Others have observed that it’s a “creatively stimulating,” place to work, filled with lots of natural light, whiteboards and meeting spaces. Employees are “buzzing with ideas” and “constantly brainstorming.” Because Twitter is rapidly expanding, parts of the office are frequently under construction — one recent visitor noted that although the space is well-designed, Twitter already needs more of it. An added bonus: breakfast and lunch are free.

As Twitter Director of Communications Matt Graves explains, “There’s no one set of skills or experience we’re looking for — it really depends on the position. But we do look for certain traits: hard workers, smart thinkers and respectful team players. Having a great sense of humor is a (big) plus; I’ve never worked with so many funny people in my life.”

Don’t forget to include your @username on your resume. “Seems obvious, but people forget!” he says.

For more information, check out Working at Twitter, and follow @jointheflock on Twitter. Those interested in university recruiting and other campus-related topics can direct inquiries to @TwitterU.

Every week we put out a list of social media and web job opportunities. While we post a huge range of job listings, we’ve selected some of the top social media opportunities from the past two weeks to get you started. Happy hunting!

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Season's Tweetings: The Great Twitter Secret Santa

For most of the year, Twitter buddies share breaking news headlines, techie banter, maybe a crazy cat video or two. But for the holidays, Regan Meador wants them to exchange something else: Gifts.

Hoping to add a high-tech twist to a tried-and-true holiday tradition, the 31-year-old New Yorker got together with a few friends to start "The Great Twitter Secret Santa."

The social experiment, which launched for the first time this month, pairs up Twitter users who follow each other for a real-life gift exchange.

"We just wanted to play with it a little bit and see how we could take those relationships that people make in this place, which are generally very loose, and take them into a more personal level of exchanging an actual thing or making a charitable donation," said Meador, who works in marketing as a digital strategist when he isn't spreading online holiday cheer.

To sign up, Twitter users just filled out an online form that asked for contact information and personal preferences (for example, their favorite color and favorite childhood gift). Then a piece of code created by one of the founders matched the would-be Santas with others in their Twitter network.

After registration closed Monday, the organizers sent participants the names of their matches and let the gift-giving begin. Meador said they launched the project with just a few tweets but it grew organically to encompass thousands of people in more than 40 countries.

"It's been amazing to see how people grab on to something and see how messages spread," he said.

Meador said he was encouraged to see that many participants were more interested in having their Secret Santa donate to charity in their name than give them an actual present.

So he and his co-founders decided to expand the Internet-enabled Secret Santa effort to Facebook.

Earlier this week, they launched The Great Secret Santa, a gift exchange between friends on Facebook. But instead of gifting tangible goods, everyone gives to charity.

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Watch: Woman Gets Free Trip in Twitter Mix-Up

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Top Twitter Trends of 2010

Natali Morris talks to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about Twitter's top trends of the year. Justin Bieber is the only living human on the list, trending behind the Gulf Oil Spill and FIFA World Cup.

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And the Top Twitter Trends of 2010 Are...

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Twitter has analyzed the 25 billion tweets sent in 2010 and published the list of top overall trends in the year behind us, as well as the top 10 trending topics in eight categories: News Events, People, Movies, Television, Technology, World Cup, Sports and Hashtags.

Twitter’s top ten overall trends actually paint quite a good picture of what the world was interested in in 2010; definitely more so than Google’s list of the fastest rising search topics.

The Gulf oil spill and the Haiti Earthquake were definitely among the biggest news stories of the year. The FIFA World Cup, the accompanying vuvuzelas, and the psychic octopus Paul captured the attention of almost the entire world for a couple of months, and iPad and Android were constantly generating buzz in the world of technology. The rest, as one might expect, is entertainment: Christopher Nolan’s hit movie Inception, the teen sensation Justin Bieber, and the omnipresent Harry Potter. Here’s the full top 10 list:

1. Gulf Oil Spill
2. FIFA World Cup
3. Inception
4. Haiti Earthquake
5. Vuvuzela
6. Apple iPad
7. Google Android
8. Justin Bieber
9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
10. Pulpo Paul

Check out Twitter’s microsite to see the top trends for the individual categories.

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The Hunch Gift-O-Matic Churns Out Holiday Gift Ideas For Your Twitter Pals

/15/hunch-taste-graph-business-model-api/">taste graph to come up with the recommendations.

So how well does it work? The top suggestion for Hunch CEO Chris Dixon is a railrroad strategy game called Ticket To Ride. He’s always Tweeting about the Carcassonne, so that’s a pretty good suggestion. What to get Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley? How about an iPod-compatible jukebox. Our own MG Siegler, aka @parislemon? The Gift-O-Matic’s top suggestion is a a Star Trek USB Communicator nerd phone. Perfect!

So far, so good. But when I tried @arrington, the man who has everything, I got mixed results. It came up with some pretty decent ones: a voltaic backpack, the Hurt Locker DVD, a large carry-on satchel, and an expert bocce set. But the first suggestion, a book called Wetlands, was a little off. I may be wrong, but I just don’t think he’d enjoy this book. Here is the description:

With more than one million copies sold in Germany and rights snapped up in twenty-seven countries, Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world

Yeah, I’m definitely getting him the bocce set.

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Don't Click On Shady Goo.gl Links: New Twitter Worm Making The Rounds

A Twitter virus is on the loose this evening, replicated by people clicking on mobile links shortened with Goo.gl like in this Twitter search. Thus far I’ve seen it spreading through two different urls http://goo.gl/od0az and http://goo.gl/R7f68 but there’s a good chance there are others. The worm also seems to be creating and/or hijacking a number of newer accounts for the past seven or so hours.

The Next Web has traced the http://goo.gl/od0az URL back to http://artcan-development.fr/tw.html through Securi but the real URL for the second link does not match up, showing a http://www.csrimini.it/tw.html instead.

Twitter @support representative  Troy Holden tells TechCrunch Twitter is on the case, “We’re aware and have sent out password resets for affected users. We’ll monitor the situation in case of further iterations.” In the meantime, don’t click on any suspicious links. Especially if you’re on a cell phone, as it seems to be originating at http://mobile.twitter.com/.

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