LinkedIn removes follows, adds Twitter integration

Tue 17 November 2009 14:30, Louis Venter

Back in my development days we used to have a saying, ”what Intel giveth Microsoft taketh away”.

Linkedin seems to have done just that. While they have added nofollows to all external links from your Linkedin profile they have also added Twitter integration.

You can now go and edit your profile, add your twitter account and set it to tweet everything or just tweets with the #in hashtag. I’m not sure how many people are going to use the hashtag but I guess that remains to be seen. Seems to me to be a blatant plug at the trending topic traffic. I see as many people trying to spam it for data recovery and the like

It seems to have little bearing on the public profile settings at the moment both on the regional and global level. This will probably change in the future I would suspect as a few of your latest tweets on your public profile seems like a good thing.

From the nofollow perspective Linked in was always a nice way to interlink your profiles from a personal brand SERM perspective. That’s going to be missed in my opinion but a small change in your other profiles should counter that quite easily.

I am pretty excited to see Twitter integration happen as the two networks are very synergistic from a professional networking point of view. Let’s see how this develops.

<Yahoo looking for UK's best bran...

Google book-deal well received i...>

Comments (1)

- @joshfleischmann
Agree that they complement each other nicely, but wonder if the #in hash is too broad. #linkedin takes too many characters, I would love to see ways to distinguish hashtags with the same spelling. Caps? Bold? Font? Am I crazy?

Tue 17 Nov 2009, 16:05

Comment

Super Tuesday 2012 - here we come

Thu 26 Jan 2012, Ramcy Simoons

0 comments

While political analysts worldwide might be pulling double or triple shifts in the aftermath of Obama’s State of the Union speech, I and maybe more ‘Joe ma...... read more

Tiësto's Live Performance on Twi...

Mon 9 Jan 2012, Vitto Christaldi

0 comments

Hewlitt-Packard (HP) together with Intel Corporation will be hosting the first live-stream concert on their Twitter pages, starring the worldwide known disc jockey and...... read more

Jackie & Rihanna

Wed 21 Dec 2011, Vitto Christaldi

2 comments

JACKIE Magazine, the Dutch glossy magazine, became the hottest topic a couple of days ago for its article in issue 49 page 45, which referred to the singer Rihanna as ...... read more

How Airlines Use Social Media to...

Tue 29 Nov 2011, Vitto Christaldi

0 comments

We are entering December! The temperature is going down and soon most of you will be in your hometown, celebrating Christmas with the family; or maybe taking a break f...... read more