80% Of Companies Use Social Media To Track Competitors [STUDY]

Shea Bennett — Thu, 31 May 2012 08:00:15 +0000

A new study has revealed that almost eight out of ten companies (79.2 percent) use social media sites to monitor and extract information relating to their competitors.

The survey, conducted by competitive intelligence software providers Digimind, noted that some 62.5 percent of firms use Twitter to perform this very legal yet highly beneficial corporate espionage, which was second only to LinkedIn (69.4 percent), but far ahead of Facebook (47.2 percent) and Google+ (35.2 percent).

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How Companies Use Twitter, Facebook And LinkedIn To Hire And Fire Employees [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shea Bennett — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:00:11 +0000

Last month the FTC gave its approval to a new start-up that runs social media background checks on potential employees. The firm, Social Intelligence, can scan through your Facebook updates, photos, videos and groups, plus anything you’ve contributed on Twitter, LinkedIn, and even YouTube.

It’s not a free for all – they’re looking for specific ‘red flag’ criteria, such as racist remarks or signs of illegal activity, as well as positive behavioural examples, like charity work. They can search back as far as seven years.

Bottom line? Keeping your social media presence clean has never been so important.

This new infographic from online training firm Mindflash takes a look at the ways in which employers are using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogs to screen employees.

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80% Of Companies Use Social Media To Track Competitors [STUDY]

How Companies Use Twitter, Facebook And LinkedIn To Hire And Fire Employees [INFOGRAPHIC]