If you hang around Twitter-land long enough, you’ve probably noticed people including the “#in” hashtag in their tweets. And you might be wondering what on earth does #in mean?
It all has to do with LinkedIn’s ability to automatically pull your tweets into your LinkedIn profile.
If you want a particular tweet – one that shows how marvelously smart and employable you are – to appear in your LinkedIn profile, you add the #in hashtag to the tweet.
For the tweets where you talk about your love of cheese steak sandwiches, please DON’T pull them into Linked In and leave off the #in tag.
But that’s not all there is to it. First you have to configure your LinkedIn profile to pull in your Twitter feed:
1. Log in to LinkedIn
2. Click on the “Profile” tab, and then select “Edit My Profile”.
3. On the Edit Profile page, there is a light blue box on the left of the page, with fields for your name, current job, photo, etc. Toward the bottom of the box is a field called “Twitter.” Click on the “Add Twitter account” link next to it.
4. A browser window from Twitter will pop up. Provide your Twitter username and password, and click “Allow”. This will let LinkedIn access your Twitter account.
5. Next, you’ll be asked which tweets to share in your LinkedIn Status. Select “only tweets that contain #in”, then Save Settings.
6. At any future time, you can change these settings by editing your LinkedIn profile, and then selecting “edit” for the Twitter info in your LinkedIn profile.
Ta-da! That’s it. Your tweets are seamlessly pulled into LinkedIn – on display for anyone who cares to view your LinkedIn profile.
If that magic isn’t enough for you, you can create a spaghetti like mess of integrations between your blog, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr, and so on. You can also automatically pull your blog posts into LinkedIn and Facebook. When you create a new blog post, you can automatically send a tweet with a link to all your followers. You can pull your Facebook status updates into Twitter and vice versa. You can pull your Facebook status updates into your blog. And so on, and so on, and so on, ….
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