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• Brittaney C. // Mar 9, 2009 at 11:24 am

  What am I doing right now? Kicking myself right now for not thinking of this!! …and smiling because it’s such a genius idea. This definitely shows off your wit, talent and overall ballsy-ness. I love it! Good luck with your employment endeavors, my friend.

• Kyle Lacy // Mar 9, 2009 at 2:40 pm

  I am going to help you every chance I get. Good luck! This is an awesome idea!

• Dustin P. // Mar 9, 2009 at 3:13 pm

  be doing themselves an injustice by passing you by!!

• DorotheeRH // Mar 10, 2009 at 10:45 am

  Good luck Jamie!

• Rebecca // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:02 am

  You rock, Jamie! Twitter would be totally lucky to have you.

  Rebecca
  @modite / @alice

• Matt Cheuvront // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:13 am

  This is an awesome idea - great way to get recognized, I’m already seeing it spread like wildfire across my twitter-sphere. Good luck to you, and props for being proactive and innovative!

• ABC Dragoo // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:58 am

  In a competitive marketplace for jobs - I have to say (in my opinion) you stand head and shoulders above the rest.

  This is a brilliant use of 2.0 - so smart.
  If you don’t get the spot with Twitter I am sure someone will scoop you up soon *and pay you handsomely* for your fast wit.

  I wish you all the luck with your job search!
  ABCD

• Mark Hendy // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:59 am

  Congratulations on the idea. If nothing else you deserve an interview. Nice play.

• Linsy // Mar 10, 2009 at 12:49 pm

  Hi,

  It is so cool of you to use this method on twitter. I like your words, i am also finding a job now. It is too hard, isn’t it? But i saw your confidence. You let me know that i shouldn’t give up anyway. I think i need to do my best any time. Good luck to both of us!

• LaTosha Johnson // Mar 10, 2009 at 1:28 pm

  How can Twitter not hire you?! You’re ridiculously talented and incrediby creative to come up with this idea. Best of luck and I’ll definitely do my part in tweet this site

• Tawny // Mar 10, 2009 at 1:36 pm

  What a unique and innovative way to go about your job search. You are right, it is a competitive market out there and you need to stand out to get your dream job. Way to go!

• Derek Sivers // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:00 pm

  Congrats, Jamie! After 10 years of hiring (at my previous company) - my biggest advice to friends has always been, “If you really want to work somewhere, prove it! Go above-and-beyond. Be persistent.”

  I would often hire people who persistently let me know, weekly, how bad they wanted to work for my company. Sometimes I’d find something for them to do even if I wasn’t really hiring. I’m always glad I did.

  You’re doing the right thing. Congrats, again.

• hs // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:00 pm

  you go girl! at first, i thought this must be a joke. then i thought you must be some crazy, desperate woman. now i think you got “balls”. like i said, you go girl. wish you luck but you won’t need it.

• Manjunath // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:02 pm

  Jamie, This is a good way to get at what you want to achieve….to have your word out….
  I love the idea ….best of luck….

• Manjunath shenoy // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:02 pm

  Jamie,
  This is a real good idea to get your profile out and direct it at the company….. I love the idea..
  Best of luck in your endeavor

• G-Man // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:17 pm

  what type of job are you looking for at twitter?

• Paul W // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:22 pm

  Good luck!

• Good // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:22 pm

  But a little creepy at the same time

• Bryan Christmas // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:32 pm

  I got hired at VideoEgg last June with a similar idea. I was applying for a technical adops position, so I integrated an openX adserver to deliver ads about hiring me on the page with my cover letter. Check it out(keep refreshing to see more ads)-

  http://streamcurrents.com/wordpress/?page_id=4

  I think maybe you should somehow integrate twitter more closely with this effort, but you’re really doing a great job.

• Paul // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:33 pm

  I’m starting a rimshouldhireme.com website to see if I can’t get a job at RIM!

• Theresa taylor // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:33 pm

  Jamie you are brilliant!!!! I love your stories!!!!Twitter should hire you!!!!!…You are the best at anything and everything you put your mind to. You are the best writer ever!!!!!

• Ealz // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:35 pm

  Great initiative - good luck and may the best potential employer win!

• Matt Cheuvront // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:37 pm

  Jamie - this is an awesome concept. I think you have hit a goldmine here and obviously you are already getting some massive recognition. It’s simple yet brilliant. Rock on!

• Anon // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:51 pm

  Wow! This is amazing?

  Can you make sandwiches too?

• LaTosha // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:56 pm

  You are ridiculously talented and Twitter would be lucky to have an employee like you. I knew I was drawn to your blog for a reason…you exude confidence and your creativity is something we can all learn from. Good luck

• senor burns // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:57 pm

  who’s twitter??

• senor burns // Mar 10, 2009 at 4:02 pm

  oh the nice young lady must mean ‘trigger’ the horse

• Curried Goat // Mar 10, 2009 at 4:03 pm

  Epic Fail, all women should stay home barefoot and pregnant. You Mamm, have set a terrible standard here for young women wanting to achieve success. I hope you rot in virtual hell!

• Anonymous // Mar 10, 2009 at 4:07 pm

  I LMAO so hard when I read your resumé, you have no programming or business experience whatsoever, which is currently what twitter needs imo.

• Andy // Mar 10, 2009 at 5:09 pm

  Is this a marketing maneuver like “oh now it’s out in the wild, they can’t step back”?

• Benjamin Dover // Mar 10, 2009 at 5:10 pm

  This is pathetic. Blackmailing and stalking, in order to force Twitter to hire you just to avoid a PR backlash, surely to God they are way smarter than that.

  Nevermind the more qualified candidates who have been waiting their turn for opportunity. Let the loudest voice be heard.

  I dare you not to “moderate” this valid opinion into non- existence.

• Jason // Mar 10, 2009 at 5:33 pm

  Awesome work, I hope they hire you! Oh and get a title tag on your page / theme fast
  (eek this 404’s when I submit! … fix of miss that job!)

• admin // Mar 10, 2009 at 6:33 pm

  @Jason - I fixed it. Your comments came in fine. And I got the title tag. Thanks for the heads up. It got taken away when I edited my theme.

• Toby Champion // Mar 10, 2009 at 7:15 pm

  http://www.youshouldhireme.com/

• Milena Thomas // Mar 10, 2009 at 7:24 pm

  Well, Jamie, you already know how I feel about this. Go for it!

  But WOW - some of these comments are pure comedy gold.

• patrick // Mar 10, 2009 at 9:21 pm

  Hire this Kid! Exactly the kind of competitive energetic go-getter that this country needs. Watch out, given half a chance, this lady will run your company in 10 years!

• Jerry DeFoe // Mar 10, 2009 at 9:46 pm

  Persistence and determination are omnipotent! When I was in college, a guy was hell-bent on getting on the football team. He slept in his pickup truck in the parking lot and showed up for practice during summer camp every day. He wasn’t recruited nor was he invited. The coaches finally let him try out and he turned out to be one of the best starters on the team.

  If more people had your tenacity and clear goal, we would pull out of this economic disaster for sure. I’m a huge fan and I wish you the best. Twitter would be very wise to give you your shot!

• @micahspieler // Mar 10, 2009 at 10:15 pm

  not that you shouldn’t get the job based on qualifications or anything, but i almost feel like they SHOULDN’T hired you based on this stunt - then every other desperate person looking for a job just needs to make a internet meme scene and expect to be hired by whomever.

  good luck though!

• Harry // Mar 10, 2009 at 10:26 pm

  Good Luck! I applied too.

• Theresa Taylor // Mar 10, 2009 at 10:56 pm

  Hi Jamie,

  You are an inspiration to all the young women out there and giving alot of people hope. You are showing people to really follow their dreams. You go girl!!!! Twitter should hire you.!!!!You are so creative and beyond the times… and they need a smart and innovative person like you. You can be their Twitter Tart!!!!(Tart=Smart)!!!! YESSSSS!!

• Fi // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:28 pm

  Great idea. Good luck and well done for ‘taking the bull by the horns’ and trying a different approach.

• Guru // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:30 pm

  Hi Jamie

  You rock with this nice idea.

  I wish you all the best and tweet us after you join in Twitter

• Akhila // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:35 pm

  Well I’ve already said this to you multiple times on twitter, but this is an amazing idea showing your forward-thinking, passion, creativity, and persistence. Plus your internet marketing skills since so many people have seen it already. Amazing effort and I hope you get the job!

• kale22 // Mar 11, 2009 at 12:17 am

  Aweseome Hope you get in!

• Joseph Jayanth // Mar 11, 2009 at 3:37 am

  Wow..
  Everyone’s said everything, nothing much to add

  good going and nice to see so many appreciations..

  All the best..

  Cheerio
  Sam

• Padraig // Mar 11, 2009 at 5:04 am

  Bit too keen and ego-maniacal. You’d probably end up annoying everyone and then shag off to facebook or the next big thing.

• ECommerce Job... Where are you? // Mar 11, 2009 at 6:59 am

  Jamie, great example of a World Wide Rave in the making. @dmscott take notice!

  Now I’m just worried you raised the bar a little too high for all the rest of us job seekers. =)

  Going to see David Meerman Scott speak today. Interesting to see if anyone mentions you since you are no doubt becoming this week’s Skittles.

• Maggie // Mar 11, 2009 at 12:58 pm

  Knock ‘em dead, Varon.

• john // Mar 11, 2009 at 1:19 pm

  you should post a picture of yourself

• Plonker // Mar 11, 2009 at 2:53 pm

  I love this @jaomievaron, I think you’re so ballsy and wonderful for coming up with this awesome concept! I will insert it into my twittosphere with a vengeance!

  I would just love to work at twitter; for one thing it would give me such an amazing opportunity to really take the best advantage of the platform. Nothing I ever did or thought would be left out lol!
  It sounds like heaven on earth!

  Anyway, I think that those guys at twitter would be crazy and stupid and quite frankly criminally negligent not to grab you with both hands!
  All the best,
  If all else fails, you can perhaps offer an oral configuration of your immense charm?
  I for one am jealous, but in a good way lol!

• Ythan // Mar 11, 2009 at 3:10 pm

  Good luck, but I would not be interested in an applicant who made a public spectacle of the hiring process unless it was for a position in viral marketing.

• Kermit The Frog // Mar 11, 2009 at 11:34 pm

  Hey Jamie,
  Cool idea and cool little blog thing you made here. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just all go around making websites about how we want to work at .coms and than digg the shit out of them and get hired!!! Good luck, but realistically there are probably hundreds of over qualified PHD candidates in line in front of you who have kids to feed and have been laid off from some big important job they have been at for years and now will take a gigantic pay cut from 6 figures to minimum wage just to make sure they can afford their mortgage and not force their family to live out of a car. I’m sure the hiring manger over there at twitter is going “ahhhh how cute” at your little blog. Get ready to be disappointed and get in line at the unemployment office like everyone else is doing, or you can hold a sign up on the freeway off ramp that say “will blog for food”. How amazing is it that (sarcasm) that we can do all this work and try to be over achievers, get bachelors degrees from awesome UC schools, make amazing resumes and still end up being so desperate for work that we will do things like this. I really do wish you the best of luck and it would be awesome if you got hired at twitter but realistically people got kids to feed and everything is gonna be fine for people like you its just a bitch getting a job this year

• Dave // Mar 12, 2009 at 2:41 am

  I hope this doesnt prevent other companies from hiring you, if you do not succeed in being hired by twitter

• Steve Coran // Mar 12, 2009 at 11:31 am

  Jamie, congratulations on this fantastic blog! The intelligentsia have gathered to trumpet your genius in a most pleasing fashion. You remind me of a modern-day Richard Feynman.

  I agree with the other posters that Twitter would be crazy not to hire you. What do they have to lose? If you don’t like it, you’ll be quitting within 2 weeks anyway. Just remember: if they don’t offer you a 5% ownership stake, do NOT accept the offer. That would be totally disrespecting your well-being.

  :tfb:

• Erica Guaca // Mar 12, 2009 at 12:06 pm

  GRRRL POWER!!!

• mike91959899 // Mar 12, 2009 at 12:35 pm

  Without fuel they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men.

  On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed.

  Except for one gal name Jamie armed with a Twitter account and a Honda full of silver.

• Joey.Kaplan // Mar 12, 2009 at 1:02 pm

  What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

• Pud // Mar 12, 2009 at 1:02 pm

  Jamie, come join me at AdBrite!

• Robert J. Goatse // Mar 12, 2009 at 1:13 pm

  In this market finding an opening can be difficult. But as a business owner I am willing to stretch as much as I can to make openings for the right person.

  Good luck to yuo as you analyze your future. And make sure to spread the love wherever you go.

• Casey Serin // Mar 12, 2009 at 1:26 pm

  Ignore the haterz, Jamie. You rock!

• Trev in I.T. // Mar 12, 2009 at 2:11 pm

  LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT:

  YOU QUIT YOUR JOB AFTER TWO WEEKS AND MOVED BACK IN WITH YOUR PARENTS?

  I’M A SERVER ROOM TECHNICIAN AND EVEN I THINK THAT’S WHACK.

  I SEE LOTS OF CATS IN YOUR FUTURE.

  REGARDS,

  -TREV

• Sasha H. // Mar 12, 2009 at 2:25 pm

  hon, do not worry about the crazies. they’re basement bois who can’t even talk to a real woman. best of luck on your dreams! you sound like you have a lot of pluck and courage in your corner that’ll see you through into success

• Don Arson // Mar 12, 2009 at 4:19 pm

  I fought in Iraq, but you are my hero, Jamie!!!!!

• Tayor // Mar 12, 2009 at 4:23 pm

  You are so brilliant! I think Twitter should hire you and make you CEO! (within the first year) of course. I think you are going to have so many job offers Twitter is going to have to fight for you. Keep us updated.

• Amy // Mar 12, 2009 at 6:14 pm

  Have they hired you yet? How ’bout now? How ’bout now? How ’bout now?

  Now?

• grub // Mar 12, 2009 at 8:53 pm

  forget the admin position, try to get on their marketing team. This is a great move. Good luck.

• Russ G // Mar 12, 2009 at 10:05 pm

  Good luck!

• Matt Cheuvront // Mar 13, 2009 at 6:56 am

  Is anyone else noticing that Twitter usage seems to have skyrocketed lately? Everyone I turn, every talk show, it’s going nuts. Jimmy Fallon is a big advocate of Twitter - it’s talked about nightly on his show.

• Keith Shirley // Mar 14, 2009 at 4:27 am

  Everyone is holding their breath wondering how long it will take before you are successful.

  Good Luck

  Keith

• Tayor // Mar 14, 2009 at 11:16 am

  It looks like you tryed to get a job with Twitter with what was available at the time which was the admin job. But you are far better skilled in marketing. Twitter should read this site and hire you for their marketing department. Plus you are such a good writer I would definitely look into writing a book. With your writing skills you would sell millions! Your biggest Fan.

• Courtney // Mar 14, 2009 at 11:59 am

  This is a fantastic idea! It’s the kind of thing I talk about on my blog - I wrote an article about “Creative Ways to Sell Yourself” - http://www.laidoffpanic.com/2009/02/23/sell-yourself/

  It’s like the guy who had googlecanyouhearme last year (I think).

  Good for you and good luck!

• Millionaire Acts // Mar 17, 2009 at 4:00 pm

  Nice one! You will definitely be hired by Twitter if they visited your site.

• Grumpy Nerd // Mar 20, 2009 at 7:29 am

  I have lost the last shread of faith in humanity.

  Twitter is a temple built to morons. It’s one of those things that if you do it you immediatly feel a worse off afterward, a little dumber and a little guilty. Like whacking off to thoughts of your cousin.

  People like you should be rounded up at gunpoint and forced into TwitterTard concentration camps where you could whittle about the hours of your day playing litebrite.

  I am disgusted.

• Josh // Mar 20, 2009 at 11:22 am

  This is a great idea. I’ve been doing this myself for a while on my blog.

  You always hear stories of people’s Blog, Facebook or Myspace accounts getting them into trouble, but smart people will use a strong online presence to better pitch themselves (companies would be foolish not to do some form of online background check - all this information is public domain anyways).

  Cheers and good luck!

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• Debbie Norwitz // Mar 23, 2009 at 12:30 pm

  Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant! If they don’t hire you, they’re missing some beans in their pod. I’m in the alpha stage of creating my website, and I’ll be damned if I don’t follow some of your brilliance!

  Go Get ‘Em!!!

• Creativity in the face of adversity | Coded Style // Apr 24, 2009 at 1:26 pm

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• Creativity in the face of adversity | Coded Style // Apr 24, 2009 at 1:26 pm

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