Shelly Palmer

Twitter Drops LinkedIn Partnership

Twitter & LinkedIn

LinkedIn announced via a blog post on Friday that Twitter would no longer be partnering with the business-networking site to sync updates from one site to the other. This ends a partnership that began in 2009. LinkedIn users can still create updates on the site and click a button to share to Twitter as well, but the the reverse is no longer possible. The LinkedIn post by Ryan Roslansky, head of content products at LinkedIn, pointed to Twitter’s own Friday blog post about “delivering a consistent experience on Twitter.” It’s possible, though doubtful, that Twitter wants to separate itself from the business networking company after the recent password breach in which 6 million LinkedIn passwords were stolen. Read the full story at Mashable.