LinkedIn first integrated the use of Twitter at the end of last year and they have now extended that integration with the 'Tweets' application. Instead of just being able to integrate your LinkedIn and Twitter status updates and display your Twitter account on your profile, you can now control your Twitter account from inside your LinkedIn profile.

The new 'Tweets' option allows you to tweet directly to your Twitter from your LinkedIn account and have the option to share it to your LinkedIn status, rather than it be the other way round as it was previously. So you now have the option to update only your Twitter account from inside LinkedIn. Just go to the 'Tweets' item on your homepage menu.

You can see the status updates of the people you follow on Twitter that are also your connections. You can also reply, re-tweet and display your recent tweets on your profile and view the Twitter feeds of the people you follow from inside LinkedIn. The 'Connections to follow' list allows you to see the people you are connected to on LinkedIn that you are yet to follow on Twitter.

There is also a 'Connections' tab, which makes it easier to follow any of your LinkedIn connections on Twitter by giving you a list of the connections you can follow and the connections you already follow. You can start following them or unfollow any of your connections without having to go directly to Twitter. You can do it all from inside LinkedIn.

One of the best features of 'Tweets' is being able to create dynamic lists of your LinkedIn connections. You can create a private 'Twitter list' whereby you save all of your connections and LinkedIn will keep the list up to date with which of your connections have Twitter accounts. So you will be able to keep updated on which of your connections have Twitter accounts and what they are Tweeting about.

So LinkedIn couldn't have made things much easier to control your Twitter account from your profile. They've made it easy to keep track of your Twitter account and to find new followers from your connections who are on Twitter. It seems that LinkedIn are keen for users to use their LinkedIn accounts as their social media dashboard.