Comments on: Why you shouldn’t connect Twitter to LinkedIn

By: Fiona

Fiona — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:58:37 +0000

I use both Twitter and LinkedIn, and am a big fan of both. However I just want to see business related updates from people on linkedin, not their whole twitter feed, which just fills up my LinkedIn home page with trivia, but doesn't tell me what they are doing professionally.
You can link them both the other way round,however, i.e. when you post on LinkedIn, it goes to twitter ,but not vice versa. Even better, you get a little tick box next to your LinkedIn status, that you have to tick in order to send it to twitter. I wish people would set it up that way round; it's a much more professional way to use LI, in my opinion!

By: Mike McGrail

Mike McGrail — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:26:16 +0000

Totally agree! Never ever do this! For me LinkedIn is blighted by people linking their twitter. If I was looking at somebody to hire for a digital role and they had done this, their lack of awareness would put me off!

By: Marc Munier

Marc Munier — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:17:49 +0000

Valid I do forget sometimes, but I don't have a huge amount of time to dedicate to "social" stuff personally so this way ensures my linkedIn gets updated more often than it would otherwise...

Good talking point cheers for posting

Marc

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:11:49 +0000

Marc - what Adrian says! I don't think I'd ever remember ...

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:11:23 +0000

It went like this:
"I got this funny email from LinkedIn about you, malcolm"
"Really? Forward it to me."
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By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:04:19 +0000

Ouch. Still, could have been a lot worse I guess. I go for the #in option 'though that does mean, of course, that my LinkedIn profile status very rarely gets updated.

By: Marc Munier

Marc Munier — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:00:28 +0000

I'm a fan of the "liz" approach, I started off sharing all my tweets into LinkedIn and got into a similar situation - inappropriate stuff ending up on LinkedIn. But now I just add the more work related tweets and I'm sorry to say I use the #FB tag as well - sorry Malcolm but really works for me!

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:33:23 +0000

Liz - problem with that is that I find it annoying on twitter when people load their tweets up with hashtags to make sure they're connected to facebook / linked in / some hashtag feed. But that's certainly better than letting them all hit LinkedIn!

By: Catherine Harriss

Catherine Harriss — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:31:16 +0000

Great article....I have had similar problems with certain medical terms which relate to a business I run. Running the twitter account for the same client, along with other social media, I do have to be careful about how the terms are used, and who is likely to see them!

Excellent advice also from Liz Cable, one of your responders. I will certainly look into that.

By: Liz Cable

Liz Cable — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:19:13 +0000

There are two options when you attach your LinkedIn to your twitter account:

One is to display all tweets in your profile (which displays all tweeets that aren't replies or mentions).

The other is to only display tweets that contain the hashtag #in.

i.e. with this latter option set, when you tweet, if you DON'T include the #in, the tweet will NOT go to your LinkedIn status.

You can edit what type of connection you have at any time, just click on "edit" next to your twitter account name when inside "edit profile".

Hope this helps.