If you run a small business, you may want to  put your Twitter stream on your LinkedIn profile. This strategy works best for solopreneurs, consultants, and freelancers who use Twitter for business. Before you share your tweets on LinkedIn, make sure that they truly present the professional message you want to display on LinkedIn.

• Before You Start: You have a business Twitter account and you have your personal resume listed on LinkedIn.
• Learning level: 4 | Creating Solutions
• Article Last Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Should You Share Your Tweets On LinkedIn?

Many small business people work hard to share great information with their community on Twitter. For some small business people, it makes sense to republish your tweets with your LinkedIn profile. For others, your business tweet stream is more about your customers and doesn’t contribute to your professional resume and image. This is a decision that you must make after reviewing your tweets and your goals for your LinkedIn profile.

Before you link together Twitter and LinkedIn, review your tweet stream to make sure that your tweets add to the professional presence you want to convey on Twitter. It is better not to display your tweets than to display them and have them detract from your professionalism or add clutter to your LinkedIn profile.

I strongly recommend that you only share selected tweets from Twitter to LinkedIn.

Connecting Twitter and LinkedIn

Previously, LinkedIn had a special application that allowed people to post their most recent tweets on their LinkedIn profile. They did away with that feature, and replaced it with a simple way to post a tweet as a status update on LinkedIn.

First, you must set up your Twitter account with your LinkedIn profile.

1. Log into your LinkedIn profile.
2. Choose Profile | Edit Profile from the menu.
3. Scroll down to the Additional Information area.
4. Next to Twitter, click Edit. LinkedIn displays the Manager Your Twitter Setting window.
5. Click Add Another Twitter Account. Twitter displays a window where you can authorized LinkedIn to access your Twitter account.
6. Type your Twitter account credentials and click Authorize App. Your Twitter account now appears in the Manage Your Twitter Settings window.
7. Under Sharing Tweets, select the appropriate Twitter account from the drop-down list of Twitter accounts associated with your LinkedIn profile. (You can link several Twitter accounts, but you can only share tweets from one account at a time.)
8. Click the checkbox for sharing only tweets that contain the hashtags #li or #in.
9. Click Save Settings.

The next time you write a tweet that you want to share on LinkedIn, simply add a special hashtag to your tweet. You can use either #in or #li and that tweet will show up on LinkedIn as a status update.

Your turn: Do you share your tweets on your LinkedIn profile? Share your experience.

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