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Twitter portends changes for 3rd party apps, ends LinkedIn integration

Posts from Twitter will no longer feature on the profile pages of LinkedIn users as the micro-blogging service looks to direct users to its own services.Twitter announced on Friday that it was continuing to seek ways to make the experience consistent across platforms and offer "core Twitter consumption through consistent products and tools."That means, the ability to sync your Tweets to your professional social networking account is out as Twitter puts the squeeze on third party websites that display tweets.The partnership between the two social networking titans had been in effect since 2009.End of the reciprocal arrangementLinkedIn's Head of Content Products Ryan Roslansky says he hopes that LinkedIn users will still share their posts on Twitter, even though it'll no longer be a reciprocal arrangement."Consistent with Twitter's evolving platform efforts," he blogged. "Tweets will no longer be displayed on LinkedIn starting later today. We know many of you value Twitter as an additional w

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