LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network, has teamed up with short-messaging phenom Twitter to couple the features of the two services and provide a broader distribution channel for people's professional activities.

"The business use case of Twitter is turning out to be very important," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a video explaining the tie-up. "More and more people are finding the persona they create for themselves on the Web is part of their resume."

The partnership aims to create a two-way flow of information between the two social services, so a status update a user posts on his LinkedIn account would be automatically sent out as a tweet, and vice versa.

Recognizing that some users wouldn't want every tweet they send out showing up on their LinkedIn profile, the companies are offering the option to limit that feature to tweets that include the hashtags #in or #li. RELATED ARTICLES

They said the option to sync up a Twitter account would be appearing across users' LinkedIn profiles over the next few days.

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