In November 2009, LinkedIn launched our first Twitter integration features. Since then, over one million LinkedIn members have taken the opportunity to add their Twitter accounts to their LinkedIn profile.
One of the most common requests we receive is for help finding relevant professionals to follow on Twitter. I’m happy to post that starting today, we’ll be rolling out a significant improvement to our Tweets application that allows LinkedIn members to easily find and keep track of their LinkedIn connections on both LinkedIn and Twitter.
Install the Tweets application on LinkedIn
Tweets Overview
It’s about finding the right people to follow
Once you’ve installed the Tweets application, you can easily access it from anywhere on LinkedIn using the “More…” menu at the top of the website.
The Overview tab has been updated with an improved design to help you easily find everyone you currently follow on Twitter, view their Twitter feed, and tweet from your own account.
A new module, “Connections to Follow”, has been added to recommend new people for you to follow, based on your LinkedIn connections.
View all of your LinkedIn connections on Twitter
A new tab has been added to Tweets called “Connections”. On this screen, you can see all of your LinkedIn connections who have added Twitter accounts to their LinkedIn profiles. Simple navigation is provided to make it easy to see who you are and aren’t following on Twitter.
Connections Tab in the LinkedIn Tweets application
You can easily see the Twitter information for any of your connections, follow or unfollow them, and even see a sample of their last tweet by hovering over their Twitter ID.
Making a list, Checking it twice
One of the most useful features of the new Tweets application is the ability to save your LinkedIn connections as a dynamic Twitter list.
When you click the link to save your connections as a Twitter list, LinkedIn will create a private Twitter list for all of your LinkedIn connections who have added Twitter accounts. More importantly, LinkedIn will automatically keep this list up-to-date, adding and removing Twitter accounts to the list daily based on your LinkedIn connections.
This makes it extremely easy to keep track of what your LinkedIn connections are tweeting about in any Twitter client that supports Twitter lists.
View the Twitter feed of your LinkedIn connections as a Twitter list
Time to Get Tweets
If you haven’t installed Tweets yet, you can add it by going to the Tweets install page. Add it to your homepage to keep track of your twitter lists right from LinkedIn, or add it to your profile if you want to include your most recent tweets.
While you’re there, don’t be afraid to add your Twitter account to your LinkedIn profile and install Company Buzz as well, our popular application for saving and tracking companies, keywords, brands and products on Twitter.
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Comments
Very useful – looking forward to testing it out.
Rob
Very good news for all of us in LinkedIn. Twitter is an amazing tool, I’m happy to read this post. By the way happy six birthday to all the LinkedIn team.
Can we have a way to filter out Twitter updates please? I already seem in my Twitter client, so I’d like a way to just view native LinkedIn updates when I’m in LinkedIn.
Am I the only one who feels this is terrible?
Bringing in the chatter of a facebook / twitter app over to LinkedIN. All this noise!
I always took pride in the professional and career oriented atmosphere that LinkedIN had cultivated. It was business as business can be great networking and great potential, now I’m reading about my connections eating peanut butter and jelly ?
What app are you guys bringing next, farmville? Corporateville?
Bringing TWITTER into LINKEDin has created a very noisy environment.
SUCKS!
@Henry The new Tweets application is an optional installation for users who use Twitter actively and professionally, and want to keep track of that activity from LinkedIn. It also allows users who want to include selected tweets on their profile.
The new features announced here allow users to find their LinkedIn connections on Twitter. One of the most common issues professionals have with Twitter is finding the right people to follow – this application makes it simple to find key people in your professional network on Twitter, and follow them.
The Tweets application is actually not related to the functionality of setting your LinkedIn status from Twitter. While I understand potential concerns around people who use Twitter to set their LinkedIn status with inappropriate content, you can hide anyone in your LinkedIn network updates who has chosen to set their status indiscriminately.
Hope this helps.
Adam
Very cool app – I have no doubt of its value.
Very good article and thanks for the integration between twitter and my favorite networking platform. However, I hope that this will not slow down LinkedIn any further…
I already posted this article via my twitter account @itworks to all my followers on twitter. Keep up the good work !
Thanks,
Patrick
This is great collaboration at its best! Thankyou
Great news! Looking forward to seamless integration
I just installed the Tweets app on LinkedIn and I’m loving it. I’ve already found people who I’m connected to on LinkedIn and it was so easy to follow them on Twitter right from LinkedIn. This is a great tool.
Thanks, looking forward to using it.
I’m a huge twitter fan, and think the combination of LinkedIn and Twitter is a real winner.
Hi Adam, Can you post links here to the settings where we opt to no longer see everyone’s Twitter posts among other LinkedIn status updates? Thanks.
I don’t understand how I follow a LinkedIn connection on Twitter. I see the connections tab, which shows me which of my LI connections I’m following or not on Twitter, and I see how I can click into their Twitter feed — but that is embedded into LinkedIn. Why can’t I click their Twitter handle and be sent to twitter.com?
@Ari- It was built so you could manage your entire Twitter account on LinkedIn. Hence why it does not redirect to Twitter.com when you click on their Twitter id. We do appreciate the feedback though and we’ll continue to compile it to see if we should make any changes in the future. Thanks.
This is the message I keep getting for connections to follow – “An error occured. Please check back later or try refreshing.”
@David-We are taking a look. Check back shortly and we should have it taken care of by then. Thanks.
Thanks for the new feature! It helped me find several new colleagues to follow on Twitter who I didn’t know were using the site. Much appreciated!
its been gud
that’s cool
Hey guys still the same error – waited a few days…. Any luck, this is a good feature that links connections with potential followers, but no good if it doesn’t work!
LinkedIn has always proided itself as a professionals forum. It has alaways consisted mainly of professionals. As a matter of fact, in the April 2010 version of fortune 500, these statististics were revealed rather prominently. I have always considered Linkedn a business which considered 3 main revenue sources, subscriber, ad and headhunter. I too, fear the leadership of this company is going to lose siteof the return to the stock holdr upon the initial IPO, upon becoming public. Tell me I’m wong!
When will you enhance your LinkedIn search engine to allow one to query LinkedIn status updates? (with an advanced search which allows one to apply filters using various LinkedIn demographic parameters)
Thank you! This is great. I love the option to choose which tweets I can display as I don’t want my connections to see all my twittering.
@Adam
“Am I the only one who feels this is terrible?
Bringing in the chatter of a facebook / twitter app over to LinkedIN. All this noise!”
No, you are not the only one – the updates I would usually have found useful to me from a business perspective – the reason I am here in the first place, which I would typically see when I first logged in, are now overwhelmed by ‘read this blog’ type ‘tweets’ and tripit and everything else.
Do I care if someone has travelled 15,000km in the last month? no. If I know them, do business with them, I already know where they are – LinkedIN is a way of keeping track of careers, not Facebook, and what you did last night.
It is awful. Whoever decided to go down this route to make money, is frankly killing their business.
@Adam Nash
Instead of twitter integration can we get the ability to add our own personal Vcard so that when my connections get my vcard from my profile they do not get a very bare bones one that LinkedIN supplies.
I do not know why that happens i’ve filled out mainly all the sections yet when I download my own Vcard as a test it only has about 3 lines of information. Worthless.
I rather upload my own personal VCard I have on my blackberry and allow my connections to download that instead. As it has a plethora of information on how to reach me and various IM’s, numbers and emails etc.
Much more helpful.
@David Mcquiggin nice job. I agree 100%
Thanks for all of the information, great blog by the way!
The addition of this application is great for those of us who use Twitter in business. It is as Adam states –
many of us want “help finding relevant professionals to follow on Twitter.” This application provides a centralized location to easily accomplish this goal.
It is better to have quality than quantity when using Twitter. Where better to look for quality than your own professional Linkedin network.
I feel that the integration of Twitter and Linkedin is a great marriage. The problem is that many people don’t have a clear understanding of how to properly work within the framework of that marriage to benefit both parties.
Great application! Thanks Linkedin.
Sounds like just the thing I need. Can’t wait to check it out!
I tried to install but received errors I think my list is too big. Is this a bug that will be fixed???
nice learning experience
nice learning experience,great way to express yourself
This information is very useful for me and everyone. It offers highly effective in finding problems and control information. I am using Twitter and LinkedIn to easily find all you are currently on Twitter. However, I was looking outstanding features of Twitter can compare the features of the site, other? to do this problem I hope to get more tips from everyone. I’m looking forward to learn from you. Thanks.
I’ve been wishing for this & it came true! Thanks!!
I never heard of this before until now. That is so great you have these features and I will definitely have to try them. I really like using Twitter and I find this feature amazing.
Can someone tell me how I can filter my list? I have contacts who post loads of rubbish content and I miss some other stuff then that is important. I can do this in facebook. Thanks.
Cool
! Thank u very much for this article,
Thanks
Regards
Each time I’ve tried to create a LinkedIn Twitter List using the Twitter app, I get an error message saying, “There was an error saving the list on Twitter, please try again.” Are there problems with the app? If not, any ideas why I’m getting this message?
I am also getting an error when clicking “All Connections” or “Not Following” on the Connections Tab – “An error occured. Please check back later or try refreshing.”
Overview, My Tweets, and Settings are fine. I can update Twitter from the My Tweets tab, so username/password are correct.
Thanks,
Jason
I’ve been using this feature, but haven’t been able to follow any new twitter connections – I keep getting a “retry Follow” message, and can’t follow them. Any ideas how to fix or who to contact?? I have 78 contacts I’d like to follow. I am currently following , and had no trouble adding those. Any help much appreciated!
Thanks,
Julie
I’ve had the same issues, and nobody seems to be responding to this issue. I try to save a Twitter list of LinkedIn connections, and I keep getting errors.
Thanks, Daniel
I sure wish someone from LinkedIn would respond to this!!! The “save as Twitter list” function is still not working. When you try to create a list, it results in the following error message: “There was an error saving the list on Twitter, please try again”
Hey, everyone who’s having trouble creating their Linkedin Twitter list. I figured it out tonight. Twitter only allows 20 lists. So, if you’re already at 20, you’ll continue getting error messages when you try to create your Twitter list on Linkedin, until you delete one of your Twitter lists to make room for it. Whew. It just came to me tonight that that might be the issue. Good luck!
When I see people post comments in groups that I’m a member of, there is a little Twitter label under their profile thumbnail. even though i’m set up with Linkedin being connected to my Twitter account, there is no Twitter label under my profile when I post. how do i get that to appear?
Thanks,
@Augustehill
The Save as Twitter List still doesn’t work. It’s been two years now, when can we expect a working version of this functionality?
Is there a way to see the contacts in a Twitter list who are on LinkedIn and a link to their LinkedIn profile?
I’m having the same problem that David above noted in May 2010. When trying to find which of my connections are on Twitter, I get the following: “An error occured. Please check back later or try refreshing.”
I’ve waited a few days and retried, but no success. Any advice?
Tony
Tony,
I found the problem is related to the limit Twitter puts on lists. They limit us to 20. So, if you already have 20 lists, the system can’t create an additional “LinkedIn” list. So, you’ll have to delete one of your lists from your Twitter account, then you’ll be able to use the LinkedIn list feature.
My connections tab on the LinkedIn tweet app is broken. It will not pull any Connections for me. I have submitted a tech request via LinkedIn but saw a thread that indicated this has been an issue since 2010 so am not hopeful they will be responsive. Would very much appreciate any help or workarounds that anyone may have. I am not even sure how I would go about manually checking to see if people are on Twitter…way too many connections to do that…
I have the same problem as David/Tony.
Any ideas??
Ben
I have the same problem as David, Tony and Ben.
@Brian Philips – My problem it’s not related to the lists limit, I’ve 3 lists…
I have only just thought to use this app but it’s broken and as the others have pointed out looks like no-one is paying any attention to these comments. In fact I don’t know why I’m wasting my time writing this? I think I’ll get rid of it