How to Update Your LinkedIn Status with Your Twitter Tweets
3rd July 2009
Link Your LinkedIn and Twitter Accounts Together
Do you, like an increasing number of business people, use Twitter and LinkedIn to keep in touch with your customers and contacts?
If you do, perhaps you’d like to link the two together?
Update Your LinkedIn Status Everytime You Tweet
In this short tutorial, I’ll walk you through the simple steps needed to ensure that the”What are you working on?” status in your LinkedIn account, is automatically updated with your mesages everytime you post a Tweet in Twitter.
This technique is a great time saving feature as it allows you to post status updates to two great social networking sites simultaneoulsy with only one update.
Get Started on Linking Twitter to LinkedIn
To get going, you will need:
- An active Twitter and LinkedIn account (obviously)
- A Ping.fm Account (http://ping.fm)
- A Twitterfeed Account (http://twitterfeed.com)
The Steps Needed
Step 1
- Login in to your Twitter account and go to your Profile Page e.g. http://twitter.com/username
- Click on the RSS Feed icon in the bottom right of your screen and copy the web address that is there for future reference in this process. This address will be formatted like: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/12345678.rss
RSS Feed URL on Twitter
Step 2
- Login to your Ping.fm account. If you don’t have an account sign-up for one free at http://ping.fm
- Add LinkedIn as a ‘Service’ making sure that the ‘Status Updates’ box is ticked during the process.
- Whilst still logged into your Ping.fm account, go to http://ping.fm/key and copy the long Application Key number that is given to you. This number will be used with your Twitterfeed account in Step 3 below.
Application Key in Ping.fm
Step 3
- If you haven’t done so already, create a Twitterfeed account for free at http://twitterfeed.com
- Login to your Twitterfeed account
- Create a new ‘Feed’ to Ping.fm
- Enter your Ping.fm Application Key as obtained in stage 2.3 above
- Set the Ping.fm update method to “status”
- Enter your Twitter feed RSS URL (web address) that was obtained in Stage 1.2 above.
- Set the update frequency to 30 mins (the minimum)
- Set the service so that up to 3 updates are obtained at anyone time
- Finally, set the remaining fields as per the screen shot below.
Setting a Feed in Twitterfeed (Click to open larger image)
That’s it you’re done
Tip: Be patient.
Because of the 30 minute update frequency set in your Twitterfeed configuration at stage 3.7 above, each time you Tweet, your Tweets won’t immediately appear within your LinkedIn “What are you working on now?”status once you’ve posted them to your Twitter account.
Happy tweeting!
Lesley-Anne Hornbogen Says:
Thank you for this Jamie. I have been having a problem with LinkedIn in respect that I use http://www.postlater.com to schedule recurring posts for a client of mine, which I have linked to Ping which then distributes out to all his social networks. However LinkedIn won’t accept “micro-blogs“ only “status updates”. This might be a way to link it up without messing with the scheduled posts I have entered on postlater. I will give it a go and let you know.
Kind regards
4th July 2009
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5th July 2009
donna Says:
Hi Jaimie,
thanks for the tutorial. I’ve just added a post to pingfm so that it can update twitter/facebook/linked in. It has updated twitter but not the others.
Should I have updated twitter, or twitterfeed instead of ping?
I’m not sure now how to use twitterfeed rather than twitter or ping, think I have confused myself now…..am I infinitely looping?!
14th July 2009
Jaimie Dobson Says:
Yes Donna – miss out using Ping.Fm to update with, simply use the Twitter website, Tweetdeck or whichever application you choose to update Twitter with directly. Otherwise you will get the ‘looping effect’ you’ve seen.
14th July 2009
donna Says:
thanks Jaimie,
14th July 2009
Pirkko Schildt Says:
Could you please explain what this Twitterfeed here actually does? I got a version working that if I post a status to ping.fm it get’s copied to Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin, so adding this Twitterfeed in the chain, what does it do in addition?
16th August 2009
Jaimie Dobson Says:
Haven’t tried it without the Twitterfeed element. If you say it works without it. Then great. Another method! Cool.
16th August 2009
Pirkko Schildt Says:
Using ping you can get Twtter, Facebook and Linkedin updated if you update ping-status.
But it would be sort of nice only to update Twitter and get that copied to Facebook and Linkedin, not having to update ping – So i’d like to have only the 3 services “visible” to me, not 4 (1 feeding 3).
So I thought this would do that somehow … but maybe not?
17th August 2009
Jonathan Beeston Says:
Great post. Any thoughts on how to exclude retweets and @replies that might not make sense as a LinkedIn status?
12th September 2009
Jonathan Beeston Says:
I figured it out by putting the Twitter rss feed through a Yahoo Pipe before giving it to Twitterfeed.
12th September 2009
Dave Says:
Thanks for putting this up.
It would be nice to update the instructions that relate to ping.fm – ping.fm seems to call things networks not services now and there are several settings when you set up LinkedIn as a network/service that are not intuitive. Step by step instructions for ping.fm (with pics) would be fantastic.
It’s pretty backward of LinkedIn not to integrate natively with twitter etc so thanks for filling the gap.
2nd October 2009
Dave Says:
…And I’d love to know how you get around the different ’sentence structure’ requirements of Twitter and LinkedIn.
e.g.LinkedIn prefixes network updates with “Dave” and Twitter doesn’t. If I Tweet “I love this blog…”, then LinkedIn says “Dave I love this blog…”.
In fact, it’s even trickier because the sync method described here results in LinkedIn saying “Dave Silversix_Dave I love this blog” – my twitter name is automatically included when the tweet is pushed to LinkedIn.
Hmmm…..
2nd October 2009
Jaimie Dobson Says:
Hi Dave – yes I suppose this article could being updated in relation to ping. Do you or any other of my blog readers know of another web article which does this? Post a link here.
2nd October 2009
Dave Says:
Jamie
Well, I’ve scoured the web and can’t find anyone else that has provided instructions which are any clearer than yours.
I’m reticent to attempt doing it myself because I’m not convinced that I’ve done it right myself.
In fact, I’ve turned the sync off because I can’t get the LinkedIn status just to say “Dave says” + my tweet (or any other variation that makes a tweet make sense as a LinkedIn status update).
Cheers
Dave.
7th October 2009
Jane Milton Says:
thank you for this – it does just what it says on the tin and was very easy for me – not even remotely techie person- to follow
4th November 2009
Jaimie Dobson Says:
I have now posted another related article to this one which gives instruction on how to use Hootsuite to updated your LinkedIN status as you Tweet. Check it out at http://www.inetengineers.com/social-networking/twitter-social-networking/use-hootsuite-to-set-your-twitter-tweets-as-your-linkedin-status/
8th November 2009
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twitter is a big revolution in the social media industry. Every one wants to get more and more benefit from this. This is another a big tip to connect the two big networks twiter and linkedin. Tutorial is very easy to understand thanks for sharing this information.
4th February 2010