Setting up Twitter Feeds to Update Your LinkedIn Account

I get this question about once a week through email and other sources, so here’s the post I’ve written often but never published.

To have your Twitter update feed your LinkedIn update you must first add your Twitter account to LinkedIn.  You can do this from the “Edit My Profile” Tab or from your Settings (top right of the screen).

When attaching your Twitter account, you have the option of having your entire Twitter stream feed your LinkedIn updates (BAD IDEA!), or you can share selected tweets by including “#in” in the tweet. That means you get to use your brain instead of an automated system to post everything.

Those posts might be appropriate for Twitter, but not LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a different environment where people pay more attention to everything they read on your profile. It’s way too much exposure if your status, which feeds the home pages of your connections, is updated several times a day.

Already have Twitter connected to LinkedIn? Here’s how to change your settings.From your home page, click the drop down box beside the Twitter “T” and select settings. Of, you can access your Twitter settings from your Settings link at the top right of any LinkedIn page.

Again, if you adjust your settings to share only selected tweets (those that contain #in), you’ll be fine.  When you tweet and want it to show up on LinkedIn, #in is all you need. It will update your profile status within a few minutes.

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