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This week LinkedIn added Twitter integration so that tweets from your selected Twitter account can also update your status on LinkedIn.  You can either have all tweets update your status on LinkedIn or only tweets with a #li or #in hashtag.

It’s about time that LinkedIn got linked up with Twitter like most other social networks, but it’s too little at this point.  I want more.

Current integration of Twitter status updates with other social media networks is too clunky; either all of your tweets go to the other social networks or you have to use a hashtag.  Routing all your tweets to Facebook or Linked in means that you end up boring your family and friends with those business links or Twitter-specific chatter that they really don’t care about. Send all of your tweets to LinkedIn and that can result in some serious oversharing for a business network and major work:life conflicts.

Sure, you can add a hashtag to your tweets in order to ensure that only specific tweets appear on certain social networks.  But isn’t that hashtag in your status update just a blemish that says “I don’t care enough to update my status specifically for his network, but I’ll cc: you on some of my tweets.”  Different social networks are different communities and I want customization so that I can send unique status updates that deliver the specific content that is of interest to individual communities and audiences. Oh, and did I mention that I want it all in one app?

So far the application that is doing it best is the IM client Digsby.  Not only does Digsby aggregate all of your IM accounts (including Facebook and Google Talk) and your social networks, but it also allows you to update your status across multiple social networks.  The status update window is a Global Status Update window from which you can check off which specific social network (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace and even your IM status) you want updated.  Digsby even knows what social network stream you clicked “update status” in and checks that network off automatically. Adding links and sharing images is easy too.  Excellent. No more unregulated tweets to your social networks and no more hashtags that show which of your networks are second class citizens.

Now if anyone is listening, I want this on my BlackBerry.  It seems like Loopt might do the trick, but I can’t seem to download it for my BlackBerry 8310.  If anyone has suggestions for BlackBerry applications that will perform this little trick please let me know.

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