If you want to know what the strategic priorities are for a startup, sometimes you need to look no further than the positions they are trying to fill. Twitter, which is growing like crazy and just raised $35 million, is hiring engineers and business development people. But three new positions recently popped up for what appear to be Twitter’s first product managers. They are for the Twitter service itself, Twitter search, and the Twitter API Platform.
Reading the job-board tea leaves here, Twitter is signaling that those are the three most important areas that it will be focusing on: the main service, search, and the platform. The first one is obvious, a growing company needs a product manager for its main product. But the other two suggest that beyond its basic service, Twitter sees its future as platform for other apps and as a search engine.
Of course, Twitter is already a platform for hundreds of other apps, which helps to drive substantial usage of the underlying messaging service. The more messages that people create the better. And that is where the need for the third product manager comes in. Twitter’s real-time search is how people are going to sort and filter the messages on Twitter, and it will drive usage even higher. Right now, most people read the messages that they happen to catch while they are on Twitter.com or see through an app developed by Twitter. With search, the growing archive of micro-messages can be mined for both fun and profit. That’s the job I would apply for.
I really love twitter and it has not only changed the social networking platform but it also gives business, website owners and internet market a way to contact to their customers or clients and in my view twitter is a lot more than a social networking site.
Mohammad Afaq
Free Website Traffic
Hahaa. I guess we have an applicant!
For what? I dont see any opening for a suicide bomber.
sooo funny…..NOT!
And why write that lame comment and not leave your name or website…chichenish, are you?
Anyone who has been following Twitter’s sponsored shill publication (Silicon Alley Insider) would know that Search has always been Twitter’s “next step”.
Article after article after article in SAI keeps talking about how Twitter will “disrupt” Google.
I swear the VC’s that backed Twitter must be backing SAI or else they wouldn’t be getting that sort of coverage over there.
Anyone who has been reading TechCrunch (or any other tech blog, for that matter) would know the same thing. Click on the links above for more info.
The point is that Twitter is now hiring a product manager to oversee search.
Erick’s leaving TechCrunch to work at Twitter?
I can read tea leaves too, you know…
Twoo much Twitter news.
Twitter is all over the news these days, but it is cool to see so many use cases. We are using twitter on skedet.com to keep people updated when schedules get created or updated. It is an automated feed to keep people aware of whats happening.
I guess people have stopped complaining about twitter using ruby on rails now, right?
After all, Rails Can’t Scale ™
Slow news day?
Are any teens actually using Twitter these days or is it just adults thinking that they’re following it?
Only tweens.
And twats, don’t forget.
EV – if you’re reading this I’m you’re Strategic Business Development person and if you filled that position, I’m happy to head of Operations, Sales you name it! -pick me, pick me.
You’re supposed to be able to address them in 140 characters, I think.
Keep your coverage of Twatr to 140 characters, and we’ll all be better off.
you broke the job listing portion of their site
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twitowned
"Follow the Hires" @ twitter -But these positions have been up for more than a month! twitter should Hire ME
Twitter should grab those guys that are running companies like Boilingpage – http://www.boilingpage.com or similar for their search engine. They are doing a great job with their websites and I can see a clear synergy between these companies and Twitter.
Twitter sucks. It seems like every other article on this site is about Twitter. It’s overrated, not profitable and a complete waste of time.
Tweetzi is a cool search app for Twitter!
Main service, Search and API platform are obviously their three main products.
That they are hiring for these positions is hardly news.
I was hoping something more interesting would pop out of the hiring info:(
Would rather work for twitter than Google right now. Most interesting opportunity online hands down!