Twitter is growing its Washington office with a new hire aimed at working on public policy issues.
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Twitter is bolstering its UK office with the hire of a new team member, Lewis Wiltshire, a former BBC sports social media editor.
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Twitter’s record-breaking tweets-per-second moment came thanks to Beyoncé’s baby announcement at the Video Music Awards, so it’s no wonder the company wants to step up its focus on the music industry.

Twitter has hired record label marketing manager Tatiana Simonian to work with its Content and Programming Team, focusing on establishing partnerships with labels, artists and other musically inclined.
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Karen Wickre, the former blog strategist and global communications manager for Google, has taken a job at Twitter as its editorial director. Wickre will be charged with developing a consistent Twitter “voice” across its various public platforms.
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Colin Crowell will be joining the Twitter team as the new Head of Global Public Policy. Formerly a senior advisor to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, Crowell will join Adam Sharp in Washington D.C. as the second employee in Twitter’s two-person D.C. team.
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Social recruiting – using social media to find potential employees – is more popular today than ever before.

According to a new infographic from Jobvite, a company which offers social recruitment software, 89 percent of US companies use social media in some way during their recruitment process. How does Twitter fit into the bigger social media picture? Check out the infographic below to find out.
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As more people sign up for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, there’s a huge increase in the information available about a potential employee and employers have taken notice.

New stats from Jobvite suggest that social media use – and Twitter use in particular – by employers looking for potential employees has risen in the past year.
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Twitter has lured away another big name from a competing tech company. Rita Garg, former MySpace business development director has signed on with Twitter. Garg will be joining Twitter’s expanding team as the director of business development, and she let the world know about her career move in a rather appropriate way: a tweet.
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