Twitter business – social networks combine status updates

Twitter has without doubt become the golden boy of the mainstream media in the last year or so, although some of the more upcoming applications like Foursquare and Google Wave are starting to turn heads too. The really exciting one for me will actually be Google Social Search, which I think will have quite a substantial impact on the way companies market themselves.

The interesting Twitter news this week is that Linked-in has partnered with Twitter so users are now able to update their statuses from either platform. I think this is a good idea, although there were quite a few ways around it anyway by using tools like Ping.

The Linked-in Blog comments:

The idea is simple: When you set your status on LinkedIn you can now tweet it as well, amplifying it to your followers and real-time search services like Twitter Search and Bing. And when you tweet, you can send that message to your LinkedIn connections as well, from any Twitter service or tool.

To be honest, I have always found Linked-in to be a little too static and dry but I know it can be a very useful resource. Most decent recruitment companies have been using it for years to track people down with certain specialism. For a useful list of ways to get the most from Linked-in try this.

It appears Linked-in is finally beginning to make adjustments to become less static and much more instant. I think it’s time for Linked-in to step up and show us all why it is such a widely used business social network – it certainly cannot afford to sit back anymore.

Do you think it’s good you can update Twitter from Linked-in and vice versa?

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