The hardest part of getting started on Twitter is figuring out who to follow. If you are an HR professional, HR student, or job seeker, you will only get so far following Oprah or Ashton or Shaquille.
Not very far actually.
Ashton can't help you with the latest developments in E-Verify.
Shaq is not going to offer to critique your cover letter.
No to get any value at all from Twitter you need to find and follow 'real' HR professionals, recruiters, companies, bloggers, the kind of people you can learn from, engage with, and share your expertise with.
So how do you go about that? Well, a new service called TweepML has made the process of sharing lists of Twitter users to follow much easier.
Sign up for TweepML, create or upload a list of Twitter names that you want to put on a 'recommended follow' list, then share the list via a link, email, or an embeddable button or widget.
I even did the hard work for you, I created two TweepML lists (since the service limits lists to 100 Tweeps) of HR and Recruiting Twitter folk that I personally follow and recommend.
Click on the links below and you will be taken to the TweepML site where you can easily follow all the names on the list (or just the ones you are interested in) by supplying your Twitter name and password.
HR and Recruiting Peeps - Part 1
HR and Recruiting Peeps - Part 2
Totally easy right? Just think about when you first signed up for Twitter. What if you were given a list of 200 awesome and relevant accounts to follow from Day 1?
Let me know what you think of TweepML, and of the lists themselves. I can always start list number three with your suggestions.
Enjoy!
Steve