A few days ago Twitter and LinkedIN announced the implementation of a new feature: shared status updates. It was announced on the LinkedIN Blog and the news was later picked up by e.g. The Guardian.

The new system basically allows you to channel your tweets directly into your LinkedIN status update and vice versa.

On the LinkedIN Blog you can read all about this new feature and how to use it. It includes this short video featuring an interview with Reid Hoffmann, co-founder of LinkedIN and Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter:

I have toyed around with the concept for a few days and I really like this new feature. However, I strongly suggest that you chose the feature only to send tweets with the hashtag #in to your LinkedIN profile – otherwise your contacts on LinkedIN will see all of your Twitter replies and broken bits and pieces of conversations that will probably make very little sense to them.