How to add your LinkedIN Connections to Twitter (works with other sites as well)

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!

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.