Hooking Up LinkedIn and Twitter

Want to try out Twitter, but don’t have the time to spend posting to another site? You can activate a setting on LinkedIn that will automatically post any status update that you want to Twitter!. Or post to Twitter and have LinkedIn updated at the same time.

Here’s how to hook up LinkedIn and Twitter

• Go to your LinkedIn Profile page
• Click “Edit Profile”
• Find “Twitter” and click “edit”
• Add your Twitter account
• Choose whether you want to show your Twitter name on your LinkedIn profile
• Indicate which “tweets” you want to share on LinkedIn. I recommend the “#in” option. This allows you to post things on Twitter that you might not want to go to LinkedIn.
• Go back to your “LinkedIn” home page and you’ll see a Twitter symbol  next to the Share button.
• When you post your next LinkedIn status update, check the box next to the Twitter symbol and the status update will go to Twitter. The default is having the box checked, so be sure to un-check if you don’t want the status update to go to Twitter.
• You can send your “tweets” to LinkedIn by adding #in to the end of any tweet.

Don’t have a Twitter account?

Just go to Twitter.com and set one up. It’s fast and easy. Choose a username that is either your name or your business name. Once you’re signed up, go to Settings to set up more detail. If you are concerned about privacy, choose the “Protect My Tweets” option. This will require you to approve any new followers and your “Tweets” won’t be shown in searches.