If you are not currently displaying your Tweets on your LinkedIn profile – you should be… There are two ways to do this… You can set up a connection between the two to update your LinkedIn status with your last tweet, or you can add the Twitter App which displays your tweet stream on your profile. I have both set. The status updates are helpful because your network connections can then see and comment on what you are tweeting about right inside LinkedIn.
Here’s a quick run down on how to set this up.
Log into your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts in your browser (open more than one tab). Once in your LinkedIn account, in the upper right corner, select settings (shown here).
This will open up all your settings for your LinkedIn account. From this list, you’ll chose Twitter Settings (shown below):
Once you’ve clicked into your Twitter settings, you’ll see a link to “Add Twitter Account”. When you click that option a new window will open from Twitter (because you are already logged in to your Twitter account), that will automatically detect your Twitter accounts. This window is asking you to authorize the connection between LinkedIn and Twitter (see below):
You are almost done! Once you’ve added it, you’ll see the display below. You will want to set your account to visible, and share your tweets in your status on LinkedIn. You may add more than one Twitter Account, but must select a primary to display tweets to your LinkedIn profile.
Note that shown above you can select whether you want ALL tweets to show up in your LinkedIn status updates, or whether you want only tweets that include the #in hashtag to show up. Personally, I recommend all. If you select the latter, you’ll need to remember to include #in within every tweet you want to show in your profile.
Hopefully this is simple enough to get you started. You can also connect your Twitter account and your LinkedIn account through tools like TweetDeck, which allows you to see a stream of status updates from your connections on LinkedIn, but that’s for another post.
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