How to Update Your LinkedIn Status with Your Twitter Tweets

Link Your LinkedIn and Twitter Accounts Together

Do you, like an increasing number of business people, use Twitter and LinkedInto 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:

1. An active Twitter and LinkedIn account (obviously)
2. A Ping.fm Account (http://ping.fm)
3. A Twitterfeed Account (http://twitterfeed.com)

The Steps Needed

Step 1

1. Login in to your Twitter account and go to your Profile Page e.g. http://twitter.com/username
2. 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

1. Login to your Ping.fm account. If you don’t have an account sign-up for one free at http://ping.fm
2. Add LinkedIn as a ‘Service’ making sure that the ‘Status Updates’ box is ticked during the process.
3. 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

1. If you haven’t done so already, create a Twitterfeed account for free at http://twitterfeed.com
2. Login to your Twitterfeed account
3. Create a new ‘Feed’ to Ping.fm
4. Enter your Ping.fm Application Key as obtained in stage 2.3 above
5. Set the Ping.fm update method to “status”
6. Enter your Twitter feed RSS URL (web address) that was obtained in Stage 1.2 above.
7. Set the update frequency to 30 mins (the minimum)
8. Set the service so that up to 3 updates are obtained at anyone time
9. Finally, set the remaining fields as per the screen shot below.

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!