New LinkedIn Twitter Plug-In is Real ‘Tweet’ Management Tool

According to a recent LinkedIn blog post by Adam Nash, there are now over a million users taking advantage of LinkedIn’s Twitter application. The business social network has given the application a new upgrade that provides users with a variety of ways to manage how they track and follow their connections. You can install the new Tweets application here. LinkedIn began rolling out the new application May 25^th, 2010.

The new changes involve four Tweets tabs:

Overview:

• As per usual, you can Update Twitter status with your latest thoughts and goings-on
• Quick overview of what your connections are tweeting
• Who’s following you
• Just like Facebook, suggests connections you can Follow

Connections:

• Identifies all your LinkedIn Connections who also use Twitter and whether or not you follow them
• Easily click ‘Follow’ if you wish to follow them
• Or ‘Unfollow’ those you no longer wish to follow
• Save your connections as a ‘Twitter List’ and LinkedIn will keep it up-to-date for you with the latest additions; once saved, you can ‘view list’ or ‘delete’ it

My Tweets:

• Track your Tweets
• Learn how long ago you posted a particular tweet
• Share a Tweet by typing the Connection’s name in the ‘To’ box
• Retweet the post again
• Reply to your own Tweet if you feel you need to say something more

Settings:

• Manage the way your Tweets post
• Display all Tweets on your LinkedIn Profile or just the ones where you include the hashtag #  in at the end of your post – this is a great feature for trending
• Manage all your different Twitter accounts in one area (you have to click on the Settings link in the upper right of the LinkedIn main application to add more Twitter accounts before you can manage which posts to include on your LinkedIn Profile from all of your various Twitter accounts)

Once again, you can install the new Tweets application to your LinkedIn account by visiting this link.

The nice thing about these additional features is the ability for you to position your social network marketing along with your professional networking.

Try it and tell me how you like it.