When you set up LinkedIn, did you set up Twitter to automatically post as updates on LinkedIn? If you have a LinkedIn account and you automated the process you may way want to stop Tweets from being posted directly for a number of reasons and you may not know how to do that.
Why?
- It annoys a lot of LinkedIn Users because they see their feed getting “noisy” with Tweets i.e. from people who are not even using the LinkedIn platform. People Tweet far more frequently than people post to LinkedIn.
- Twitter has it’s own language, jargon and symbols that people using other platform don’t understand.
- On Twitter; it is ok to speak about personal stuff such as what you are watching or doing, but on LinkedIn: the discussion is all about business. So they do not want to know about what you are eating!
- You may be duplicating your Tweets. If you are using something like Hootsuite or Tweetdeck to share your content across Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, you are sending double messages to people.
- You may want to choose which content you share with different audiences. Each Social Media platform has a different personality and feel to it. Would you use the same language if you were presenting to school children as you would to home-based business people? Or to corporate executives sitting in a boardroom?
How?
Switching off your Twitter stream is easy.
Recommendation: I would still keep Twitter connected to LinkedIn so that you can choose to Tweet directly from Twitter into LinkedIn, but more about that in a bit.
Steps
1. Go to your profile page and look down the right hand side of your page until you see, the blue bar with your activities and click edit.
2. This will open onto another page, find “Manage your Twitter Settings”
3. Make sure the following box is ticked.
This allows you to
- publish Tweets that are relevant to LinkedIn,
- directly to LinkedIn
- simply by adding #in or #li to your Tweet.
Did you know that?
It is simple when you know how.
I wrote this blog post because I have been asked the same question by a number of people. I am happy to answer questions by writing about them and you help me by providing me with ideas for articles. If you have any Social Media questions, post them in the comments below or better still post them as questions on the Social Media for Newbie Page on Facebook.
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Great post! And people sometimes get tired of seeing the same tweet as a FB post and a LinkedIn post. I know we have only so many hours in the day, but I really think we need to be posting most of our content separately, gearing it towards the audience of each particular SM avenue we’ve chosen. (I occasionally check the “Twitter box” when making a LinkedIn post, but that’s rare.)