There are different views of SPAM in this world, and I shouldn’t lump them all together. You are right that true SPAM is unwanted push. I was remarking more on undesirable search engine stuffing.

I agree with you here:

I believe we should applaud the attempt to gather relevant information like this in one place for the people who desire that relevant information.

I think it is a really cool idea, and a nice engine which does have some utility right now for finding jobs.I’m simply challenging the idea of what we all think is relevant and useful information, and attempting to add another useful filter to their results.

You will notice in Google’s shopping results over time, they have elevated truly unique product description and pricing pages over Search engine jamming product sites. Similarly, while twitter accounts that feed Monster postings into a different stream provides some utility, I would argue that you are not getting a job any easier through that route. Getting a job would be more easily facilitated by finding jobs listed by the real humans I mentioned above IMO.

Fun stuff to watch this space evolve so rapidly…

I think what you are missing in your article is the fact that Twitter is entirely an ‘Opt-In’ service and therefore you only get the updates in your feed for who you select to follow.

Don’t want to see the robotic feeds (which you have unfairly labelled as ‘SPAM’)? Then don’t follow them - it’s really THAT simple. You’ll probably never know they are there.

SPAM is only SPAM if it forces itself on you - the accounts with feeds that go and follow everyone they can find (which I do not encourage or subscribe to) are the closest you’ll get to ‘SPAM’ on Twitter - and even then you have to not follow it back (and even have the ability to block it, if that’s what you desire).

There will always be the personal aspect of building relationships and interaction on Twitter and there’s nothing that any of these feeds, or TwitterJobSearch itself, is doing to stop that. In fact, TwitterJobSearch is almost a separate entity to Twitter in that it’s a separate platform built around the Twitter search system from my knowledge.

And that’s where TwitterJobSearch is both useful and flawed at the same time - If you are inclined to use Twitter to search for a job, possibly a very useful and powerful way of searching for a job used in the correct way - particularly in the current economic climate where jobseeking is increasing, then TwitterJobSearch does bridge the gap - however, you still have to go there to search (whereas you could just use your job board of choice anyway, if you’re navigating away from Twitter).

It is flawed also in that it doesn’t actually capture all the job tweets out there - from feed accounts or individuals - I know of a number of Twitter accounts for jobs that aren’t captured on TwitterJobSearch, but it’s less than a week old, so it’s still in infancy.

I believe we should applaud the attempt to gather relevant information like this in one place for the people who desire that relevant information.

I guess my overall point is that TwitterJobSearch - and all those feed accounts (which aren’t actually SPAM) has a place and if you don’t want to use it/follow them then that is up to you - others will find it useful though.

As for ‘evangelizing’ the human connection, I think the nature of Twitter generally does this very well in itself.