LinkedIn Boards the Twitter Train
Posted on November 10, 2009 |
These days, it seems that everyone wants to be pals with Twitter, the microblogging phenom. On the morning of Oct. 21, Microsoft announced a deal for its Bing search engine to search for Twitter updates known as tweets. Just hours later, Google announced a similar deal.
Not to be left out, the professional online networking service LinkedIn on Nov. 10 is announcing its own integration with Twitter. Users of both services will be able to sync some or all of their tweets on Twitter and "network updates" on LinkedIn.
Specifically, users in LinkedIn will be able to check a "tweet this" box near their network update post to Twitter. And while on Twitter, they can add the hashtags "#in" or "#li" to their posts to appear on LinkedIn. Finally, a new app called Tweets will let users put their Twitter streams on their LinkedIn profiles.
Here's a video with LinkedIn Executive Chairman Reid Hoffman and Twitter cofounder Biz Stone:
And here are the details in a blog post from Allen Blue, a LinkedIn cofounder and vice-president of product strategy:
