One of the very first things I did after learning my position had been eliminated was to set up a slew of RSS feeds to direct as many job openings to my attention as possible. In the past that would have meant hitting the big search engines and some company websites. But now you can get much of that by following accounts on twitter.

I used Twitter Search to find jobs near me. By searching  for ["city/metro name" job OR jobs OR hiring] (in my case [Orlando job OR jobs OR hiring], I get dozens of leads every day. To direct that to my RSS reader of choice, I copied the RSS feed link from the upper right corner. TwitterJobSearch.com and TweetMyJobs.com does some of this automatically, but I found that rolling my own solution worked just as well.

I also followed specific accounts that consistently give good leads in my region. Using Brizzly, Tweetdeck, or similar tool (and soon Twitter itself) you can organize these into lists or groups. So you just have to check on that tab to get the latest jobs.

This morning I found that TweepML has collected a list of the companies who use twitter to recruit. Using the tools on this page you can select the companies you want to follow and add them all at once.

Finally visit this post from Mashable for some more great suggestions. I hope you'll find Twitter as valuable a tool as I have during my job search.