Comments on: Managing Multiple Twitter Accounts Is Easier Than You Think

By: Walter De Vos

Walter De Vos — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:01:26 +0000

Like the many (online)apps I have tried this one has nu user management. But none of the apps do, I wonder why that is?

Imagine you have 3 twitter accounts, one for each brand. Every day a few people start following one of those accounts. Twitter sends out an e-mail every time someone follows you. So far so good. All apps will let you read, respond, search … through different accounts. But none will tell you that there are new followers that you may want to follow back.

So, what happens is that I have to first open my e-mail and check who’s following. Then I click on the link. It opens in twitter, but it opens with the account credentials that I uses the last time I logged in to twitter and I can’t see which credentials are used. SO I need to sing out and sign back in using the credentials of the account which the new follower is following. Then I can click on follow.

In the beginning I followed the wrong people from the wrong accounts, because I forgot to sign out and the e-mail opened in the wrong twitter account. It was a mess. I don’t understand why it seems I am the only one to find this troublesome.

Long story. Short question: guess: What is a solution to this mess?

By: Steff (Inari)

Steff (Inari) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:40:29 +0000

As a workaround for those who want a desktop solution for web apps, there is a workaround. I installed the Prism for Firefox addon. Once installed, if you click on the Tools menu and select "Convert Website to Application" it will turn just about any web app into a desktop app. So you can have Splitweet and/or HootSuite as an application if that's what you prefer

By: Seth Goldstein

Seth Goldstein — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:57:38 +0000

I have 5 different names for different purposes. I use hootsuite and sessmic desktop to manage all of them. It seems to work well so far. Split Tweet looks neat as well.

By: Hector A. Henry S.

Hector A. Henry S. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:32:46 +0000

Hi good pots. In my case i have 3 acconuts one personal and one for each one of my blogs. in my case i use Twhirl adn its make its posible to long on several or account not only one, and each one whit his how windows to reaconice them, i lov eit and its great work for me.

I think it would be great if Twhirl would alow we user to select if we want oar tweets in the same window or separeted. that would be great on it.

thank you for the post.

By: Mike Gingerich

Mike Gingerich — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:44:55 +0000

I have found hootsuite to be a solid web app to manage multiple accounts. I like the tracking that I can do on clicked links in my tweets when I use their tiny url shrinker. I also like their Hootlet browser tool that lets me easily post things. I’m open to other options if something does allow me to view and add other tweeps easier.

By: Laura Christianson

Laura Christianson — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:22:04 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, Jason. I’ve been using http://hootsuite.com successfully to manage multiple Twitter accounts, but I’ll certainly look into Splitweet. The only thing about Hootsuite that I find cumbersome is finding and following new tweeps. Am interested to learn whether Splitweet makes this easier.

Laura
@bloggingbistro (business)
@adoptionexpert (personal/ministry)
Yes, I have multiple personalities!

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:27:30 +0000

Well you can do that on Twhirl, SeesmicDesktop and PeopleBrowsr, so I do not see the point of spending more time on another platform, except if you can prove it is better.

By: Cleanse Body

Cleanse Body — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:57:34 +0000

Very nice. I have been thinking about setting up different Twitter, Digg, Facebook, etc accounts for each website. This app looks like it could help.

By: PJ Mullen

PJ Mullen — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:18:38 +0000

Interesting, I’m using HootSuite right now to manage my Twitter accounts and I like the feed integration. I was having a lot of issues with Twitterfeed to feed my blog to my twitter account. The only issue I have is sometimes HootSuite hangs up when shortening a URL, so I keep TweetDeck on my PC as a backup for my main account. I like the idea of having the search/brand monitoring function integrated like that. I don’t mind browser based apps, since they are available everywhere, even when I don’t have my laptop with me. I really did Tweetie for my iPhone and am hopefully making the switch to a Mac soon, as my PC is on its last legs.

By: 1WineDude

1WineDude — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:05:02 +0000

I’ve got 2 accounts. One of them is a “normal” account (1winedude), the other I use for wine tasting notes and it’s “broadcast only” (1winedudereview).

And I *suck* at managing them both!

I’d love to have my 1winedude account automatically retweet the posts from the 1winedudereview account – any ideas?

Cheers!