Imagine Your Reality

When Linkedin set it up that people could connect their Twitter accounts to Linkedin, little did they know they would unleash a wave of spam on Linkedin with the result being a lot of status updates that have little if anything to do with professional or business updates. Fortunately Linkedin has also taken on some of Facebook’s better features and you can hide the updates from people who haven’t mastered the art of only posting relevant information to a given social media site.

Why would you want to clean up your Linkedin page? If you’re primarily interested in keeping up with professional activities that other people are involved in, on Linkedin, hiding the people who are posting non-relevant information can be useful because then you aren’t reading their Twitter updates. For the most part, people have linked their Twitter accounts without really considering if all the updates are relevant. They can modify the connection by choosing to use the #in, but for the most part I don’t see this used.

Below is an example of status updates, some of which are relevant to Linkedin, and some of which are not. Most of the updates are coming to Linkedin via Twitter.

To hide an update you no longer want to see, hover your mouse to the right of the status update, and you’ll see the word hide appear.

If you want to undo hiding someone’s updates, you’ve got one chance after you hide them. You’ll get an announcement that the updates of the person are now hidden. Click undo to unhide the updates or click X to remove the announcement.

This is one way you can clean up your Linkedin front page, from unwanted Twitter spam. You’ll still be able to get messages from the person, but cutting down on this kind of clutter can streamline your overall time and focus on Linkedin.