Twitter and LinkedIn…I was always hoping those kids would get together

I’ve always found Twitter more useful for business relationships than personal relationships.  I tend to use Facebook for family and close friends, and Twitter and LinkedIn for business networking.  That’s not to say I don’t have many friends that overlap, but I tend to talk digital/social on Twitter and babies/funny videos on Facebook.  But maybe that’s just me.

So this announcement by Twitter and LinkedIn, that they are syncing their status updates together, is a welcome partnership from my perspective.  Plus, the more status’ing can be synced across networks, the better.

See more below from the NYTIMES…

Tweets Are Coming to LinkedIn

By Claire Cain Miller

Twitter continues to spread its wings across the Web.

On Tuesday, LinkedIn and Twitter announced a partnership to bring tweets to LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals. This comes on the heels of announcements by Microsoft and Google that they would incorporate tweets into their search results.

The partnership with LinkedIn affirms Twitter’s role as a network for professional conversation. More than social sites like Facebook, people use Twitter to keep abreast of professional news and share links to articles about their industries.

via Tweets Are Coming to LinkedIn – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.