How to Use Twitter to Source Candidates by Location

How to Use Twitter to Source Candidates by Location Perhaps you are a business developer or simply a networker Do you use Twitter to find stuff or do you just bleet??  Do you want to be able to find people to do business with or  research  what your competitors are up to? Heres one tip for you to help with this. Find prospects on Twitter You can search Twitter to find Tweets sent to specific people you can find leads, candidates, contacts you can even find tweets sent within a certain radius, for example: Tweets with Java developer sent within 25 miles of Manchester Tweets with recruiting sent by someone within 75 miles of York etc Looking for tweets like this could really help you: develop more leads find out who your competition is and what they are tweeting about develop new contacts in your sector find candidates How do you do this? Go  into  Twitter and find your  Advanced Search wheel  (or just go to:  https://twitter.com/#!/search-advanced).  Add your usual search criteria and then add a location to  Near this place   and add a radius eg. 15 miles. This will hunt for tweets sent within a radius, of say Leeds. This will help more than simply searching for Sales Manager AND Leeds as the result of this type of search will only find tweets where the word Leeds is mentioned, as opposed to near to Leeds. Happy hunting! Related: Top 5 Twitter Apps for Recruitment.