LinkedIn with Twitter
November 30th, 2009 John LilleyA couple of weeks ago I found myself drawn away from using my usual www.ping.fm status broadcast tool. The reason? Simply because it was a fourth place I needed to go rather than inside of Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. These are the three tools where I use status updates the most.
There is now an Application in LinkedIn and also supported tags in Twitter. This allows me to broadcast status updates from either source. I can can tweet from Twitter and it will update my LinkedIn status, and vice versa as and when I need it to.
The integration within Twitter is simple. In your settings, you can link your LinkedIn account to your Twitter account.
Then you choose if you want to share all of your tweets on LinkedIn or just specific ones by using these hashtags: #li or #in.
On the LinkedIn side, there is an application that allows you to link your Twitter and LinkedIn accounts and choose if your Twitter account appears on your profile. When updating your status in LinkedIn there is now a box that you can tick to get LinkedIn to tweet specific status updates
You have the choice of updating one or both from either LinkedIn or Twitter. Personally, I tend to Tweet about all sorts of random things that are going on or interest me. On LinkedIn I tend to limit my status updates to work related matters. Both Twitter and LinkedIn have different audiences although the difference is becoming less “black and white” and more a shade of grey!
Let me know how you use these tools and are there any other tools of this nature I should look at?
