How to add LinkedIN Contacts to Twitter
Note: This was originally posted as a Squidoo page (which was also authored by me). As it is ranking #1 on Google and generating near 100 unique hits a day I thought I would duplicate the content to my blog, where I can tweak it a little better (if I ever get time).
It seems many of my connections are always asking ‘How do I import my LinkedIN contacts to Twitter’. It is actually very possible and below I explain how….. (and I promise it will take under five minutes).
Part 1: Exporting your Connections
Part 2: Importing your Connections to Twitter
Note: You can actually use this method to upload contacts from any website that gives you a contact list in .CSV format, or even use your Microsoft Outlook address book!
And of course, my Twitter id is AlexBlom. Feel free to tweet me!
Part 1: Exporting the Contacts
Ok..so we have gotten this far. Good news, you are at the right page!! You are finally going to add your LinkedIN contacts on Twitter. I pretty promise this will take under five minutes, and you only need two things.
1) A LinkedIN Account (which I really hope you have, since you are reading this and all)
2) An e-mail account with Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail or MSN / Windows Live. Even if you do not use these normally, they are free (my preference is Gmail) and you do not need to use the account after this workaround.
Step 1:
Head to http://www.linkedin.com and login to your account.
Step 2:
Click on the ‘Connections’ button on your left hand menu.
Step 3:
Scroll down to the bottom of your LinkedIN contact list and click ‘Export Connections’.
Step 4:
Select ‘Microsoft Outlook (.CSV file) and choose to Export the file. Save it somewhere you will remember – it will be needed again soon!
Step 5:
Login to your free e-mail account and upload your connections to your contacts list via .CSV; the file we just downloaded from LinkedIN (now, read Part 2).
This may seem a little complicated, if I get time I will explain how to do Step 5 with all carriers. If you use Gmail, Simply login to Gmail, click ‘Contacts’, ‘Import’, ‘Browse’ – navigate to the file we just downloaded, and finally click ‘import’. Now, all of your LinkedIN connections are in your Gmail address book – rather useful if you ask me!
Part 2: Importing the Contacts to Twitter
Ok, we have setup the free e-mail account and imported all of our contacts. We are practically done, all we need to do is add our contacts to Twitter.
Step 1:
Login to Twitter.com
Step 2:
Click on ‘Find People’ and then ‘Find on Other Networks’.
Step 3:
Select the free e-mail account you setup, in this case Gmail.
Step 4:
Type in your e-mail account username and password (do not worry, it is safe) and press ‘Continue’.
Step 5:
Twitter will now discover which of your Contacts use Twitter and automatically follow them. Hopefully, they will follow you too!
I will remain as active as I can here to answer any questions you may have! Please ask them in a comment form so other people can see (as it may be a common question) and I will update this page and methods change. Unfortunately, as Twitter does not currently accept direct CSV uploads this is the best and easiest way to add contacts.
That is it! I hope this was helpful! I check this blog quite often, so if you get stuck you can either contact me or post a comment and I will get back to you as soon as I see it.
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5 min. tutorial -> hoe je al je linkedin contacten kunt volgen op twitter. [link to post] Echt heel goed!!
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You say “Twitter will now discover which of your Contacts use Twitter and automatically follow them”. I just imported 2200 LinkedIn contacts but must manually click the”Follow” button for each one…
Twitter recently changed the rules on bulk following/unfollowing, maybe they throttled the automatic following?
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Very helpful. Thanks for the tip.
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Hi Lori / all.
Glad this was helpful!
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Hi Alex
I have been registered with Twitter for seven months and still cannot import my contacts so cannot use the service. My contacts are in Google Contacts and there seems to be no way at all to get these into Twitter. One option I looked at was creating a Googlemail email account (that's what Gmail is called in UK) but if I do that this email account will take over my contacts ans I don;t wantthat to happen. How can I get my contacts from Google Contacts (not exactly the world's most obscure repository of contacts) in Twitter? No way am I typing in over 600 contacts just to see who I know on Twitter.
Alexander,
I have 352 contacts in my Gmail addressbook, but when I import them to Twitter, I get the message “There was no one in your Gmail address book”.
Any suggestions?
Alexander,
I have 352 contacts in my Gmail addressbook, but when I import them to Twitter, I get the message “There was no one in your Gmail address book”.
Any suggestions?
Hi Geoff.
You can always try making a second Gmail account just for adding your LinkedIN contacts to. Sync this with Twitter and then just revert to using your other Gmail account afterwards.
That's what I did so my main Gmail did not become too messy!
Are you logging into the Gmail address book that you uploaded to?
Are the contacts showing up IN your Gmail?
Alex, I got it working. I was logging into Gmail with my primary email address (non Gmail). When I logged in with my secondary email address (a Gmail address) it worked! Weird, because with both logins I can access the addresbook, but I can import it only with the second one.
That is odd! I am glad you have it working now though!
This was really useful, simple too! thanks!
Extremely helpful…. although when I get round to doing it is another story, but thanks!
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