Twitter + LinkedIn…?!

May 4, 2008

I got that itch again… literally.  I woke up this morning around 3:00am with a crazy thought: What if I were to combine a Twitter-like approach to messaging with the LinkedIn community using WordPress technology?  What the heck would that look like?

Yeah, crazy huh.  So, I hopped into my office, sat down, started brainstorming about how I would do this.  3 hours later, I had a very cool working beta and was officially soliciting beta testers to try it out.

Thankfully, I didn’t have to create it from scratch since some WordPress devs had developed just the thing I needed.  A twist here and voila!

Let’s see if this thing flies…  Drop me a line if you want in!

http://LinkedTweet.com <~~~ Site no longer exists.

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14 responses to Twitter + LinkedIn…?!

  1. Joshua July 14, 2008 at 8:29 am

    hey, I had the same idea just now. I did a google search for “twitter to linkedin”. I’d like to twitter what I’m working on and have it post to my wordpress blog and to linkedin at the same time. Do you have something like this working already?

  2. John July 14, 2008 at 8:33 am

    @Joshua,

    Nope. Nothing working at this time… LinkedIn is pretty stubborn about their system and has a closed API, etc… from what I gather.

  3. Lisa G. January 26, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    This is a much-needed app! I hope it happens soon!

  4. Brian B. June 23, 2009 at 6:34 pm

    what happened to the site?

  5. J J. June 24, 2009 at 1:52 am

    not very collaborative nor in the spirit of social networking!

  6. human3rror June 24, 2009 at 1:55 am

    no. linkedin is SUPER strict of their brand… almost too much so. it was pretty lame that i got served.

  7. J J. June 24, 2009 at 2:42 am

    I have been a big fan of LinkedIn but they (or perhaps it is just their advisers) will need to understand/acknowledge that a lack of openness in this way will also be damaging to their brand (possibly even more so than not allowing you 'refer' to their trade mark or to use their API) in the new social/2.0 context/landscape.

  8. human3rror June 24, 2009 at 2:46 am

    yeah, i asked for an API and got a flat out \”NO\”. … ok…

  9. @LaffertyARCH July 14, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    Unfortunately, that is why Apple did not dominate the OS market and let Microsoft gain the marketshare…..now, decades later, history is written. Hopefully Linkedin can learn from others' mistakes.

  10. Patrick July 17, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Wow, this is horrible thinking on LinkIn's part. They've got a foot into a nitch at this critical time for online networking, and thinking like this will really mess it up for them. If they were smart they'd give you an API, and encourage you to use it, make you a VIP member or something, feature you on their homepage. What are they thinking?

  11. rungss August 30, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    @FriendFeed or Ping.fm (not sure, which one) did post my #Tweets to @LinkedIn.. for me a while back…