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After Facebook, Twitter now ties up with LinkedIn
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 18:37 IST |
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San Francisco: After tying up with Facebook few months back, Twitter has now hooked up with the largest professional network LinkedIn. Users of LinkedIn and Twitter can cross-file to each other's services, by checking a box on either Twitter or LinkedIn, according to Reuters.
LinkedIn has 50 million members around the world who post information about themselves, such as resumes, to help find jobs or employees, and to stay in touch with each other. Twitter is a social networking website that allows users to send 140 characters short messages to subscribers, who are called as followers. LinkedIn also has a similar update box with 140 characters.
Allen Blue, Co-founder and Vice President of Product Strategy of Twitter, said LinkedIn members would be able to automatically post recent tweets if they wanted. Blue said users will have the option of sending only selected materials to Twitter. He said that in addition to the obvious advantage of increasing the audience for either tweets or LinkedIn information, there were two other advantages to the new system.
Twitter "wants to take advantage of the strong identity in LinkedIn to make those professional tweeters more successful." While anyone may sign up for a Twitter account without revealing their real identity, LinkedIn is based on the social networking idea that people put their identities on the Web. Second, LinkedIn users who cross-post will be speaking both to their followers and to the broader Twitter audience that searches for tweets by keywords, location, user and the most recent tweet, Blue said.
