Today we’re announcing a partnership between LinkedIn and Twitter – and new features that we think are going to make both Twitter and LinkedIn more powerful for you.
The idea is simple: When you set your status on LinkedIn you can now tweet it as well, amplifying it to your followers and real-time search services like Twitter Search and Bing. And when you tweet, you can send that message to your LinkedIn connections as well, from any Twitter service or tool.
Why? Because when you’re trying to get something done, you want Twitter and LinkedIn to work together. Like peanut butter and chocolate! Or at least that’s what Biz and Reid think:
LinkedIn has always been about helping you to build your professional identity on the web. The many elements that make up your online professional brand range from your LinkedIn profile to the many professional conversations you’re a part of. Status has proved valuable to our users, from finding new assignments and jobs to kick-starting a global business enterprise.
Now you can amplify those messages by broadcasting them to your audience on Twitter.
How does LinkedIn work with Twitter?
The feature is now available to all of our users, and with today’s launch, we’re making that two-way communication between your status updates and tweets a breeze to set up. Here’s how it works:
1. On LinkedIn
Want to share some interesting ideas about an industry-specific article you’ve just read with an even broader audience? Or how about letting people view your Twitter account name on your LinkedIn profile? Begin by joining your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts in just a few clicks. All you need to do is check the Twitter box under your Network Updates box on the homepage and follow a few simple steps.
Syncing your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts
Clicking through the setup process will allow you to specify the Twitter account that you’d like to sync and/or display on your LinkedIn profile.
Display Twitter on your LinkedIn profile
2. On Twitter
As a professional online and in the real world, you’ll often find articles or think of ideas that would be useful to share with your Twitter followers and your LinkedIn connections. It’s about sparking interesting conversations. Now you can share from anywhere. As part of the setup process, you can choose to either send all your tweets or select tweets from Twitter back to LinkedIn as a status update.
Share tweets as your LinkedIn status
If you pick the latter, don’t forget to add the #li or #in hashtag to every relevant tweet you’d like to send back to LinkedIn. Here’s a good example:
Include #in with any tweet to post as your LinkedIn status
So go ahead and get started. Link your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts today to add a new dimension to your professional conversation.
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ok, I do not see or find this option any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Harold
I think it’s a really great feature.
Looking forward to test it
This looks like a great feature. Thank you Linked in, and Twitter.
-Kenny the Clown
I am so happy to hear about this partnership. I’ve been wanting to spend more time on LinkedIn to engage with my peers and individuals I want to learn from. This is exciting news!
Ana Lucia Novak
Social Media Marketing Professional & Virtual Assistant
I think it’s awesome that you guys are incorporating Twitter! Just a quick troubleshooting tip – for whatever reason Twitter thinks I’m a spammer so my #hashtags no longer show up in Twitter threads…if people are using the #in hashtag but their posts are displaying in their linkedin status…this might be why.
hi there – no twitter icon is appearing in my Network Updates section….
How is this any different from a service like ping.fm?
This looks excellent!
Except, I don’t have any of the new and interesting twitter features you mention available to me.
When will all LinkedIn users have access to the twitter settings?
regards,
Jakob
I get this error when clicking the “get started” link and I can’t find a link elsewhere:
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Great! When can I try it? Emphasising the #in filter will be wise. You may want to put that in a one of those new-app-banners. I am sure European users will appreciate it. “Unfiltered tweeting to LinkedIn may cause serious network digesting issues”
Keep up the innovations!
Great feature, thanks!
However, is it actually working? I’m in the UK and don’t see that Twitter logo and checkbox beneath the Network Updates box. Plus, the link to Twitter settings within LinkedIn is broken. Neither do I see any settings at Twitter to connect with linkedIn.
So is it on selective roll out, eg, US only for now?
Hallo togother,
that are very good news and informations. It sounds great.
I will love to test it, as soon as poosible.
Best wishes from Germany.
Stefan Berns
Linkedin considers its interactivity with other sites and applications very seriously before it makes a decision to act. Making this commitment shows it considers twitter as a very serious micro-blogging site. Twitter should NOW be taken more seriously by everyone.
Sounds good! I have one point of improvement though, I’d like to include all my tweets accept the ‘real’ replies, the ones starting with a @username, which are mostly only interesting for the addressed person
I need to be able to link a LinkedIn Group to its respective Twitter page. When will that update happen?
Great idea but I don’t see the button on my Home Page to make it happen? Is it live yet? And when I clicked on the link at the bottom of the post to “Get Started”, I got an error message??
Really good and I like the fact that only the tweets I send with #in will go to Linked-in as otherwise the update email / update page would be full of Tweets.
But can we have an application to show tweets on the home page profile just as I can with my wordpress blog in a separate box?
Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp
Intelligise Be Brilliant
Nice feature, but it seems that it hasn’t been rolled out to all users..
I got all excited when I read on twitter about the app being available in Linkedin. Have just spent about 90 minutes looking for it, only to be disappointed as I’ve just found your post.
Patience is a virtue. mmmm son says I didn’t even get in the queue for that one.
Please hurry up. I want my twitter link now….
Nice, but I have all my updates (slideshare, youtube, delicious, twitter etc.) already connected to Linkedin en vice versa. New? Or just easier?
For some reason I can’t seem to find the “Twitter Settings” in LinkedIn!??
This is a great extension of two very useful tools. I’m sure I will use this. Thank you.
EXcellent news!
I don’t have the Twitter icon below my Network Updates field.
Great news! Definitely a feature that will allow many to keep their status more frequently updated and in sync with their twitter accounts.
I tried to access the Twitter Settings page that you referred to in your article, however it is not yet active and gives a 404 error page.
What time today will this service become available across LinkedIn members?
Warm regards,
Luke
@Luke, @Alex, and @Edgar,
You should be able to access that link. Please feel free to ping me @mariosundar if you’re still having problems with it.
Thanks for the feedback!
Mario
What about the LinkedIn and Twitter settings for existing accounts?
… and your ‘get started’ link doesn’t work for me…
But great collaboration though!
this is great …. thanks for making it so much easier to do ….and to be able to choose which tweets
So I then read the post again and see the clue in the first paragraph:
“These new features will be rolling out gradually over the next couple of days.”
That’s a very good initiative from both of you! Brilliant idea to sync the Updates! Keep up the good work
This is great news. Thanks for the timesaver! Merci
When I click on the link above I get a link error.
Link Error
We’re sorry, there was a problem with the link you followed.
If you are following a link from an email, please be sure the link was not broken by your email client. If the link extends onto multiple lines, you may need to cut and paste each line into the location bar of your browser (beginning with the first line, then second, immediately after each other) until the full and complete link is recreated.
WONDERFUL
Can’t wait for the rollout!!! -Andre, M.
Hey, the “get started” link leads to dead page! C’mon, focus folks. Nice move, BTW.
This a is very cool partnership. This allows everyone to rethink the way they utilize both LinkedIn and Twitter.
Not sure about this.
LinkedIn and Twitter are at completely different ends of the spectrum. LinkedIn is about the long term and Twitter is about now. Rather than chocolate and peanut butter, I think its chalk and cheese.
Sorry, I’m not sure. This function does not work on my account.
It does not seem to work for me..the “get started” link returns an error message…and I can’t find the settings on Linked’in…nor Twitter
Great idea though!
If you really want to make an announcement that’s valuable why not tell everyone to use http://ping.fm
There they can create groups of social media tools and broadcast to your LinkedIn status, Twitter it, update your Facebook wall and dozens more places. You can do posts via email, SMS text messaging and beyond. Youcan even post to your blog, if you’re serious abut social media.
Look, maybe I’m being dumb here, but I’ve spent a good 15 minutes looking for how to set this up on Twitter and can’t locate it. The above mentions how to set up the Twitter to LI push as part of set-up process, but how do you do it with an existing Twitter account?
Dear Allen,
I think there will be a lot of synergyeffects!
B. Rgds
Armin
http://wwww.eags.de
I can’t find the box to allow me to add twitter – it was not under my network updates
Not seeing the twitter link on my “Network Updates”, maybe it’s not fully deployed yet?
I’d love to be able to do link both.
I may possibly be clueless but is this functionality actually up and running yet?
I cannot seem to find it anywhere.
Nice! I’ve tried to do this for a while with a work-around. The #in hashtag is a great idea. Can’t wait to see the little button appear…
Great functionality, eager to test it
Marcello Rinaldi
Social Learning
http://conduciendoaciegas.wordpress.com
This is fabulous news! Thanks for adding this function, and the ability to post both ways too! Excellent.
Hi Allen, I´ll test it. tks a lot.
kerstin kitzmann
marketing & pr
Fantastic! I look forward to using this new feature since I am a fan of both entities.
Very useful utility indeed!
Thanks for adding the new Twitter feature. LinkedIn is a great app/service and I look forward to its continued growth.
http://www.MichaelTBishop.com
http://www.twitter.com/MichaelTBishop
When I try to link them up, all I get is an “unexpected error preventing my request” Sad.
Is anyone else getting the “unexpected error” problem? I keep getting that, no matter what browser I try to connect LinkedIn & Twitter…
It’s about time! : )
I like the feature, but on LinkedIn, when you do a status update, and you have multiple Twitter accounts setup, you are forced to choose only one that will get the tweet. There should be an option to select multiple Twitter accounts to receive status updates. Thank you for this great new feature!
Is this why you guys haven’t gotten all of the Orange County, CA Zip codes updated?
Fantastic development! Can this now be extended to companies, groups and event in LinkedIn who also have twitter pages?
Good job! Things are starting to get ALL conected in Social Networking
There is no option to include Twitter on our Public Profile, this would be very important…or is there?
I cannot see the sync options
Very good move in partnering. Waiting to test it.
way to go! it bridges professional networking with social and activists ones and your daily doses of cultural diversity!
I have LinkedIn updates set up as an RSS feed. Now the people I follow on Twitter who post their tweets to LinkedIn are cluttering up my RSS updates. Sometimes too much of a good thing (integration) can be a bad thing. How can I turn this off?
Any chance to be able to link multiple twitter accounts? Many people I know have a “professional” and “personal” twitter account.
Hi Tom,
You can link multiple Twitter accounts from your profile and from Accounts & Settings.
Adam
Good article, but there are still real limitations to LinkedIn status updates, like the fact that you can only see someone’s last post, and the fact that you can only see a maximum of 10.
I just wrote a blog post with my wish list at http://www.the-linkedin-speaker.com/blog/2009/11/11/linkedin-and-twitter-now-cross-post-status-updates/
I also invite you to watch the Mark Hurd “Mastermind Interview from the Gartner Conference
http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/21/mastermind-keynote-mark-hurd/
Twitter address: http://www.twitter.com/steve8004
great Idea! Looking forward to using it.
Now only if the Quality of Linkedin.com can improve. If a senior manager of Linkedin would like to learn more, feel free to contact me.
While Twitter integration is a relatively simple feature to add, so no harm, no foul, I don’t really see it as helping most users advance their professional goals by having it attached to LinkedIn. (Kudos for having the #in hash tag option, though, so that even if a user does integrate, as I have, they don’t have to tell all their professional contacts about the great restaurant they just ate at.)
It seems like there might be other services to integrate with, like job-finding services, including industry-specific ones, that would be more useful to more users.
I may be in the minority, but I rarely post the same content on my LinkedIn and Twitter updates. Two different audiences!
Still, I like how LinkedIn is always improving their service. What’s surprising is that I still come across people in business who have never heard of it.
http://www.paulaljohnson.com/
http://twitter.com/paulajohnson
Glad you two decided to get cozy, should be some interesting new sparks
http://www.SparkInteraction.com
http://www.Twitter.com/LeifHansen
I’m very active on LinkedIn and twitter so this is definitely something I will be using a lot of!
I received an email about this, then followed the link. I’ve tried several times, each time receiving an error message, telling me to try later.
Hope this gets fixed because I love the concept?
I tried the method outline here and worked so…
never mind.
Good to see some spice flavor for Linkedin. Else my Linkedin status was not updated from long
umm… auditory in my linkedin and twitter accounts are completely different. more than that, i twit in one language and update linkedin statuses in another… no use for me.
btw, actually i’ve never updated linkedin statuses
Excellent partnership, thank you!!
However, my Twitter to Linkedin status isn’t working, can someone plz help with that?
I have my settings to show all twitter tweets, and to show on my profile.
1) Twitter is showing on my profile fine,
2) If I post on LinkedIn status, it goes to Twitter fine,
3) My twitter tweets are NOT coming to LI status though
Am I missing anything ?
No doubt a great thing to do. But I would be glad if you provided a twitter app on linkedin profile page just like the blog application, so that my latest tweets will be reflected in my profile!
Arun,
Just wait for the next blog post… we have an app for that.
- Adam
I’ve tried to link to Twitter several ways. 1) by clicking on the twitter button, 2) by adding from my profile page, and 3) by following the link from the email sent to me. I have gotten error messages each time. Help, please. This seems like a really great feature.
Love the connectivity, nice add-on!
Hi Tom
This is really help full.. i m also do it thank you adam
Maybe I’m missing something but I was hoping Twitter updates containing #in would appear in my updates box on LinkedIn (not below my references, websites, connections, etc).
I was also hoping that updates to LinkedIn would go to Twitter. Is that how it’s supposed to work?
Can anyone help, I’ve been pulling my hair out on this. The Twitter LinkedIn sync works only one way, LinkedIn will post to Twitter but not vise versa, any help would be great.
here are my settings: http://www.effusiondesign.com/linkedin.jpg
I’ve deleted my account, and readded it twice now, switched my sharing options, posted correctly on Twitter with the #in and #li, still it won’t show up in LinkedIn when posted from Twitter.
Please advise — thanks!
Rob
>> Sounds good! I have one point of improvement
>> though, I’d like to include all my tweets accept
>> the ‘real’ replies, the ones starting with a
>> @username, which are mostly only interesting for
>> the addressed person
100% AGREE with the above. Do NOT include tweets that begin with @ – or at least give us the option to exclude them
Gary
Just set this up. It’s great! Hoping we can look forward to this set up with other social networking sites like Facebook.
Allow us to disable tweet updates from contacts or I’ll just start trimming my contacts down myself please.
As long as there is actual peanut butter and chocolate involved… I’m in!
It all seems to be working very nicely. One exception is that when I tested posting my LinkedIn status from Twitter via the use of #in it gets done but my iPhone LinkedIn doesn’t pick up the status change. It shows in LinkedIn, but not in the iPhone client. Shouldn’t it?
How long should it take for a #in tweet to show up in my LinkedIn status? I tried one almost an hour ago, and it’s still not there. I did link my Twitter & LinkedIn accounts – and tried the other way: LinkedIn –> Twitter; that worked within a few minutes.
A valuable add to Linkedin.com!
Please can you help
I have set my twitter link up and all seems ok when tweeting as it updates across to my linked in network status – cool.
However it seems to be only one way traffic, as if i post a network update on my linked in home page ( check the box next to the twitter icon and press share ) – it only updates my linked in status and won’t update my twitter status- really strange and frustrating. Advice welcomed thanks!!
@JW,
That’s rather odd. We haven’t had similar complaints from other users. I’ve forwarded your request to our customer service team. Stay tuned for an update.
And, thanks for your patience.
Is there anywhere to write an opinion that a completely integrated LI/Twitter experience isn’t necessarily a good thing. I liked LI because it was a way to be connected with my network in a way that I could keep fresh (the applications are useful for this) without being completely overwhelmed by the noise that people in the twitterverse often send out. And I’m someone who is pretty social media literate, what about the millions of LI users who are just trying to get up and running with LI, much less other social media platforms. I think that LI’s conservative approach over the past 6 years has been a good idea. It’s a slippery slope when you start calling your connections “followers” in the groups. What’s next?
You should strip out the #in when the tweet is shown in the LinkedIn feed.
@Bob Fichtner a quick tip. Run the RSS feed from linked-in through pipes.yahoo.com . grab the feed from your personal URL, send the output to a filter to exclude all the link items with rss_stat and grab the URL from the yahoo-pipes and add it to your reader. I tested this (and use it myself) and it works
Arrg, I hate this feature, now my RSS feed from Linkin has turned into a cheap Twitter feed, if I wanted that I would follow these people on Twitter. How do I turn this feature off. I HATE IT!
I’m one of the few here who think this feature is not really such a great thing. I use both LinkedIn and Twitter, but for vastly different purposes. My LinkedIn page is now overwhelmed with entirely uninteresting noise from my contacts who have connected their tweets. While I understand now that many/most people like this feature, I really do hate it, and I need an option to suppress all status updates that are coming from Twitter. Please give us the control to make this manageable, or I may find myself abandoning LinkedIn.
John you can control the number of Network updates as well as the types of Updates you would like to see on your home page so it doesn’t become too overwhelming.
Click on ‘Settings’ at the top of your home page then ‘Network Updates’ under ‘Home Page Settings’. This will allow you to adjust the number of updates that post and hide various types of updates. We will continue to try to make this feature useful in keeping up on your network’s activities yet manageable. Thanks for your feedback! Dirk
If Linked-in is international in scope, the date format in use should conform with that in common use by the rest of the world, day-month-year. USA still uses old measuring systems & has a parochial attitude with the date format. Logic tells us that the order of things is day, month, and year. Use that format & you do not need a comma, one less keystroke. Written on this day of 5 December 2009. Shall we inch our way to progress? Or progress inch by inch?
Insertion of member’s 1st name at beginning of status update does not make sense when the update consists of a tweet. Here is an example of an update that appears on my home page:
Howard The following Google search returned 387 pages: “site:whitehouse.gov +’ROBERT GIBBS’ +OBVIOUSLY” (http://bit.ly/6DYkRX) #Gibbs
Otherwise, what you are doing with Twitter is very good.
Another vote to allow disabling contacts’ Twitter updates in my News feed. I see my contacts’ tweets using TweetDeck, so I really don’t need them repeated inside of LinkedIn. I find the integration annoying from that perspective.
I love this new service, anybody serious about twitter should use them!
this is really a great news. connecting with linkedin with twitter and facebook will really help to users to update them self on the web.
Mamta
http://www.angclassifieds.com
To answer the few requests about how to link an LI group to a Twitter profile:
Go the manage page for the group and then to Manage News Feeds. Go to your Twitter profile and on the right side, find the link to the RSS feed for that profile. Grab that link and put it in the box on the LI manage news feeds page.
Bingo!
What is missing is for the “Tweets” to appear in the public profile. Google and Yahoo like fresh information and allowing releant tweets to show can lure more professionals to our profiles.
Thanks for this! Was really easy to do, and am surprised I never made the time to connect both together earlier!
Cheers!
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Agree with John Gross on this. Please allow an update to block status updates from Twitter specifically. It creates WAY to much noise.
This article was awesome! Fixing up my boss’s LinkedIn and HAD to get the ‘share all tweets’ off. Thanks!
Agreed that it would be nice to block Twitter though… some ppl get a little crazy with those updates.
OK, this is utterly annoying. I have started to give my twitter-happy contacts a choice: disconnect linked-in twitter, or I disconnect you me
Give us an option to block these twitter updates! If I wanted twitter, I’d join twitter. Stop deciding what is useful for me. If I find it useful, I will enable it on my profile.
Also, who came up with the term “followers”… What am I, a prophet?
I am getting more blog traffic from linked in now having Twitter integration
Had no idea we could do this. I think it will really help with getting more readers… Gonna try it today, assuming it’s not too difficult to get set up.
It was certainly interesting for me to read this blog. Thanks the author for it. I like such themes and everything that is connected to this matter. I would like to read more soon.
Anete Hakkinen
How can I block LinkedIn tweets?
yep, twitter is also very additctive just like facebook, you can’t stop twittiering everyday ‘.;
A lot of my Twitter feed isn’t exactly professional. That is a big reason why I don’t use this feature much.
I really don’t want to get two Twitter accounts either.
Hey you got Twitter in my LinkedIn.
Hey you got LinkedIn on my Twitter.
If some is posting via LinkedIn and Twitter and I follow them on Twitter, I don’t want to get that update on LinkedIn as well. Is their a way to block a contacts Tweets coming through my LinkedIn account?
Re: Charles, February 26th, 2010
Great suggestion on how to link a Twitter feed to an LI group. However, The RSS feed URL from my twitter page isnt recognized when I enter it into the Manage News Feed location.
Suggestions?
I had the same problems re connecting Twitter to Linked In. The options they mention ‘on twitter’ are NOT on the twitter site. It’s in your profile settings on Linked In.
Hope it helps
Happy networking.
How can I block tweets from my LinkedIn Updates?
I want to use LinkedIn for professional purposes but I feel like I’m being overrun by irrelevant spam due to this integration.
I want the ability to block tweets in general or even better, to block tweets from certain individuals.
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Interesting information and comments. Has given me lots of information.
Thanks
it would be good to be able to add LinkedIn to Tweetdeck, which is now, it says, part of Twitter. The option to do it is there but when you click on the LinkedIn icon it doesn’t work.
This sounds like a wonderful venture. Moreover, it’s an impetus for me to use Twitter more.
For LinkedIn members, Company Pages are a great way to research companies you’re interested in, follow them to stay updated, see what kind of people work there, and even review the products and services you use.
If I share an update on Linkedin and append hashtags, would those work in Twitter? Thanks