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Which Social Network is the Best For Recruiting? [INFOGRAPHIC]

LinkedIn is known as the major "professional network" with its focus on business, resumes, and the like. Twitter is the fast-paced microblogging platform that's all about real-time content. And Facebook is the world's largest social network with over 800 million active users. So which is best for recruiting?

According to "definitive data" from Bullhorn, the "clear leader" is LinkedIn. Analyzing online activity data from 35,000 recruiters, Bullhorn discovered that LinkedIn recruiting efforts manage to drive more views than Facebook and Twitter combined. In a report titled “The Bullhorn Reach Social Recruiting Activity Report," research revealed that LinkedIn drives nine times more job applications than Facebook and three times more than Twitter.

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Your Followers Don't Give a Damn About Your Breakfast but They Don't Mind Your Shameless Self-Promotion

A quarter of tweets are useless. A third are disliked. Is Twitter a time-sucking void of meaningless garbage?

Time-sucking it may be, but meaningless it is not. But the above data is indeed true, according to a new study. Conducted by a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, the study reveals that roughly are quarter of all tweets are "useless" and about one-third get a thumbs down from the Twitterverse. Even so, this doesn't erode the value of Twitter, which is tremendous.

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A Quick and Easy Way to Find Out Who Your Most Valuable Twitter Follower Is

Ever wondered who the MVP of your Twitterverse was? Now you can find out.

A new app called MFV, an acronym for Most Valuable Follower, attempts to extract from your hundreds or thousands of Twitter followers just that person. Even though it's only a couple of days old, the algorithm has already been tweaked, and is likely to altered further, so expect your MVF to change as the developers better pin down the meaning of "value."

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ADDICTION: Study Finds Social Media to Be Like Smoking Cigarettes

Firing off a tweet or status update is not unlike smoking a cigarette, new research suggests. According to a study conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, social media may be just as addictive as cigarettes and alcohol.

Over 200 subjects delivered more than 8,000 reports and the results were clear: the toughest urge to resist was to check social networks online. Now, it wasn't the most desired activity—sleep and sex overpowered lust for tweeting—but many of the subjects actually had more trouble resisting the urge to social network than ignoring their desires for booze and smokes.

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Twitter: Google+ Does Not Concern Us

Twitter has spoken. And Google+ is not on its radar.

Co-founder Jack Dorsey spoke at a technology conference yesterday and stated that his company was much more than a social network and that Google's latest bid in the social space was not a concerning issue.

Describing Twitter as a personal news service as much as a "social network" like Facebook is considered, Jack called his microblogging platform an "information utility" in which "the biggest value is finding out what's happening in your world in real time." He also said that Twitter was still busy building itself and not focused on the competition.

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Connexinet: a Canadian Location-Based App Building Success Story

Recently, we put up the 10 most used Android Apps by Canadians. Eighth on that list was Connexinet's Tim Hortons Finder. 

Connexinet's founder Samir Al-Battran realized that Canadian mobile app developers were not really building Android apps, so he took it upon himself in his free time over the past couple of years to build apps targeted to Canadians to compensate for the lack of Canadian content on the Android Market. 

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A Look at Some Cool New Technology Coming out of Edmonton

Last night, Edmontonians braved icy wind chills of minus 35 degrees Celsius to check out six demos at Edmonton's DemoCamp 17. Some demos are made by existing companies; others are the foundation of future startups; and others still are just cool, casual technologies. 

One was Zeel; built by Rocketfuel Games, it's a topical Twitter app that connects you with your interests. Essentially, Zeel is a layer you add to Twitter to more easily follow conversations on specific subjects—think Twitter's saved searches feature but simpler and sleeker.

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Vancouver's Summify acquired by Twitter

Vancouver's Summify announced this morning on their blog that they have been acquired by Twitter.

Congrats to Romanian co-founders Mircea Pașoi and Cristian Strat (pictured below). Terms of the transaction are not known at this time.

Our long-term vision at Summify has always been to connect people with the most relevant news for them, in the most time efficient manner. As hundreds of millions of people worldwide are signing up and consuming Twitter, we realized it’s the best platform to execute our vision at a truly global scale. Since Twitter shared this vision with us, joining the company made perfect sense.

But don't worry Summify fans, the current product won't be shelved anytime soon although they have disabled new account registration and will be removing a number of key features.

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Half of Canadians Don't Want to Engage with Brands on Social Networks

Many Canadians don't really think brands and social networks mix. According to new data from research firm TNS Canada, 54% of Canadians don't want to engage with brands on social networks. Calling it a "digital wasteland" for businesses, TNS vice president Ron Caughlin says that "winning and maintaining brand loyalty is now harder than ever."

Even so, 44% of consumers agree that they'd consider engaging with a brand recommended by a friend. "The online world presents massive opportunitiy for brands," Ron notes, but "misguided digital strategies are generating mountains of digital waste, making it harder for brands to be heard."

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