• eweek, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:36 PM

LinkedIn will now let members of its community feed their status to Twitter, and to their LinkedIn connections. Status updates have been an important part of LinkedIn, with working professionals using it to alert others to sales leads, new jobs and other business opportunities, writes eWeek. But, Twitter is fast becoming Web users' official status update, with millions of users blasting out messages to followers each day.

Also of note, LinkedIn's membership growth has cooled in the last two years, while Facebook has soared to more 300 million users, sparking speculation that many people have turned to the leading social network for their personal and professional connections. The move is therefore being perceived as somewhat desperate -- even every company, from Google to Microsoft, is racing to partner with Twitter these days.

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