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: Sunday, December 4, 2011

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 personal resume and professional 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.

Connecting Twitter and LinkedIn

To add your tweets to LinkedIn:

1. Display your LinkedIn profile with the Edit My Profile tab.
2. Scroll below your work history Summary to the Additional Information area. If necessary, add your Twitter account to your LinkedIn profile.
3. Scroll below your work history Summary to the Applications area.
4. Click Add Application. LinkedIn displays a page that contains all of the available applications.
   

   The Applications section showing the Add Application option.

5. Scroll through the list to find the Tweets application and click on the application name or icon. LinkedIn displays an information page for the Tweets application.
6. Read the details about the Tweets application.
7. On the right, check the boxes to display your tweets on your profile and your LinkedIn home page (or display them only in one location), and click Add Application button.
8. LinkedIn uses your Twitter account information from the Additional Information area to access your Twitter account.

Your most recent tweets now display on your LinkedIn profile. If you selected to display them on your profile, they appear in the Application section.

If you list more than one Twitter account listed on LinkedIn, LinkedIn only uses the first account in the list. You can add other accounts manually after you add the Tweets application to your profile.

Twitter Access From LinkedIn

After you connect Twitter and LinkedIn, you can read and update Twitter from LinkedIn. To access the additional Twitter features, display your tweets in your profile (or on your home page) and click See More. You can add tweets and have the tweets appear as your LinkedIn status from this area.

LinkedIn provides many helpful features, including letting you make a Twitter list of your LinkedIn network. Take some time to explore the many Twitter options available to you from inside LinkedIn.

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

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