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Anyone looking for Salt Lake City work may soon be able to apply for jobs with one of the most popular social networking sites in the world.

Twitter recently announced its plans to move the company's data center operations to Salt Lake City. Company officials say the new center is necessary to help keep up with growth, as Twitter has been hindered by computer-capacity issues as of late.

According to an article by The Salt Lake Tribune, Twitter has not yet revealed exactly how many employees will be hired to work in the new data center, but Twitter Spokesman Matt Graves did say the company would be hiring locally for the new jobs.

Twitter's social networking site allows people to post 140 character messages that are shared with the user's network. An average of 300,000 people sign up for Twitter accounts each day, which has been hard on the company's computing capacity.

"Keeping pace with these users and their Twitter activity presents some unique and complex engineering challenges," Jean-Paul Cozzatti, engineering program manager for Twitter, said. "Having dedicated data centers will give us more capacity to accommodate this growth in users and activity on Twitter."

The Salt Lake City area could certainly use the additional jobs. During May, the city's unemployment rate increased from 6.8 percent to 7.8 percent, keeping it below the national average at the time of 9.7 percent.

Salt Lake City had a total non-farm employment of 600,300 workers during June, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is up from 595,800 workers during May, but a 1.1 percent decrease from last year.

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