How to have multiple users operating a twitter account?

Managing multiple user Twitter accounts can be a difficult job since it involves higher rate of confusion and complications. Some of the worst case scenarios involve employees tweeting the same news for multiple times and also responding to the messages that are directly sent by Twitter followers.

By making use of certain tools, users can very well reduce the confusion involved while managing multiple user Twitter accounts.

There are mainly two tools that can get you out of this problem;

TweetDeck Client

Twitter itself has certain features that are designed to alleviate this problem

Contributors feature in Twitter

Some of the key advantages of using Contributors include

Allows user to be more selective about the security

Faster switching between multiple accounts

They can only post to the users Twitter feed

Contributors cannot have access to the account profile of the company and Settings

 The steps involved in enabling this tool include

Go to the Twitter menu bar

Then click on to open the drop down menu

Click Settings

Select the Contributors category

Clicking of that entry will open up a new page from where users can enter in the names of users whom the user wants to give permission for posting on the company’s Twitter account

Users will receive a confirmation e-mail message

A dedicated TweetDeck Client

It is a simple tool that can be downloaded.

Some of the key features of TweetDeck client include;

Tweets can be rescheduled to be posted later

Customization of the user feeds

Managing of the multiple accounts simultaneously

Multiple accounts can be tracked by using Contributors

The set up procedure involves;

Create a TweetDeck Account from the desktop app or the homepage of the tool

Click on the e-mail address

Enter the password

Once logged in, the twitter accounts of the users can be merged with the app

For adding an account to the TweetDeck profile, select the gear icon

Application Settings page will be displayed

Select Accounts button

Then click on ‘Add Twitter Account’

Finally click ‘Authorize App’ button

This will allow the TweetDeck client to keep track of the user’s new account and also manage the existing accounts.

For helping the contributors feature in Twitter track to understand what other users are posting on the user’s company account, it is always right to ask the contributors for adding a column that shows all the users company tweets within the TweetDeck itself.

For doing that users will have to click on the ‘Add Column’ tab that is present in the left side of the TweetDeck window. A new window will be launched and finally the users will have to click the ‘Tweets’ option that is present in the second row.

These are some of the ways to help in having multiple users operate twitter account without much confusion.