Comments on: Developing a Digital Strategy 011 – Practicalities, tweeting from multiple accounts http://heidiallen.id.au/developing-a-digital-strategy-011-practicalities-tweeting-from-multiple-accounts/ New Media in Health and Publishing Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:13:19 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nancy http://heidiallen.id.au/developing-a-digital-strategy-011-practicalities-tweeting-from-multiple-accounts/#comment-3533 Nancy Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:07:49 +0000 http://www.heidiallen.id.au/?p=1299#comment-3533 Great post Heidi, thanks! Very timely as I am just working out which software to use to manage my streams. My case of managing content is like yours, different audiences so pretty straight forward. What I am not a fan of are people who retweet their own tweets from a different account (one account usually doesn't have a pic of them) to build their stats. Thanks for the comments too, they all help! :-) Great post Heidi, thanks! Very timely as I am just working out which software to use to manage my streams. My case of managing content is like yours, different audiences so pretty straight forward. What I am not a fan of are people who retweet their own tweets from a different account (one account usually doesn’t have a pic of them) to build their stats.
Thanks for the comments too, they all help! :-)

]]> By: Tony Hollingsworth http://heidiallen.id.au/developing-a-digital-strategy-011-practicalities-tweeting-from-multiple-accounts/#comment-3528 Tony Hollingsworth Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:59:03 +0000 http://www.heidiallen.id.au/?p=1299#comment-3528 By context sensitive of course I am simply echoing Teena's comment: Hootsuite just selects the account based on the column you reply from, which sounds like what you're saying TweetDeck is doing, but the correct way? Not a big fan of Adobe Air apps - very heavy/bloated, agree with Teena. I also adopt this approach on mobile, by the way - Tweete is a great app, now in Beta with List support. See http://beta.tweete.net Cheers Tony Hollingsworth By context sensitive of course I am simply echoing Teena’s comment: Hootsuite just selects the account based on the column you reply from, which sounds like what you’re saying TweetDeck is doing, but the correct way? Not a big fan of Adobe Air apps – very heavy/bloated, agree with Teena. I also adopt this approach on mobile, by the way – Tweete is a great app, now in Beta with List support. See http://beta.tweete.net

Cheers
Tony Hollingsworth

]]> By: Heidi Allen http://heidiallen.id.au/developing-a-digital-strategy-011-practicalities-tweeting-from-multiple-accounts/#comment-3527 Heidi Allen Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:52:52 +0000 http://www.heidiallen.id.au/?p=1299#comment-3527 Thanks guys -- feel like I'm learning loads from the comments - especially as you are experienced multi-account-tweeters (is that a new word now?) The fact that hootsuite is context specific in its replies is interesting. Thanks guys — feel like I’m learning loads from the comments – especially as you are experienced multi-account-tweeters (is that a new word now?) The fact that hootsuite is context specific in its replies is interesting.

]]> By: Tony Hollingsworth http://heidiallen.id.au/developing-a-digital-strategy-011-practicalities-tweeting-from-multiple-accounts/#comment-3526 Tony Hollingsworth Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:26:13 +0000 http://www.heidiallen.id.au/?p=1299#comment-3526 This is a very timely post Heidi - I can relate as you would remember from those tweets between yourself, @neerav and me last week, I've been experimenting with multiple twitter accounts for about 2 weeks now. As an experiment I have been cross-posting some tweets to multiple accounts where I see relevancy, want to spread the information further, or let my core audience know about the other accounts. This can be at the expense of the audience following my main account @hollingsworth and the new ones, which bothers me but many are friends and hence more forgiving. I haven't decided if it's the right direction for me yet. Fortunately I haven't seen a massive outcry from the community, although some people have helpfully reminded me of the duplicate tweets. For example, this one from @tariqh this morning: @hollingsworth btw what tweets are you not going to put on your main account that your putting on @AskTonyIT ? In seeing a fair bit of dups? See http://twitpic.com/yqn1q Earlier, @KristinaThorpe: @hollingsworth You've got an echo! ;-) See http://twitpic.com/yqn28 I also manage several corporate accounts in the IBM world so, like Teena above, am finding Hootsuite invaluable (about to trial PeopleBrowsr too) - to your point on TweetDeck and its "eversonothelpful new feature of selecting the account you tweet from depending on which column you reply from" this is well-managed by Hootsuite which is context-sensitive. You are spot on again Heidi, the bugbear I have with Hootsuite is its proprietary URL-shortener ow.ly which forces you to click twice to uncover the true-URL and what's worse, inserts their banner in your browser. However it is a free-service and that's is their business model. I prefer is.gd and tend to use that, or bit.ly for its analytics capabilities. Tony C who comments above has done what I still haven't done but am considering: he renamed his prior account and unfollowed some people, then continued on as @thewordpressguy - a good strategy which is working for him. I have to figure out if I should do that too - and consolidate, or not. I am going to blog further on this. Cheers, Tony Hollingsworth This is a very timely post Heidi – I can relate as you would remember from those tweets between yourself, @neerav and me last week, I’ve been experimenting with multiple twitter accounts for about 2 weeks now.

As an experiment I have been cross-posting some tweets to multiple accounts where I see relevancy, want to spread the information further, or let my core audience know about the other accounts. This can be at the expense of the audience following my main account @hollingsworth and the new ones, which bothers me but many are friends and hence more forgiving. I haven’t decided if it’s the right direction for me yet. Fortunately I haven’t seen a massive outcry from the community, although some people have helpfully reminded me of the duplicate tweets. For example, this one from @tariqh this morning:

@hollingsworth btw what tweets are you not going to put on your main account that your putting on @AskTonyIT ? In seeing a fair bit of dups?
See http://twitpic.com/yqn1q

Earlier, @KristinaThorpe:
@hollingsworth You’ve got an echo! ;-)
See http://twitpic.com/yqn28

I also manage several corporate accounts in the IBM world so, like Teena above, am finding Hootsuite invaluable (about to trial PeopleBrowsr too) – to your point on TweetDeck and its “eversonothelpful new feature of selecting the account you tweet from depending on which column you reply from” this is well-managed by Hootsuite which is context-sensitive. You are spot on again Heidi, the bugbear I have with Hootsuite is its proprietary URL-shortener ow.ly which forces you to click twice to uncover the true-URL and what’s worse, inserts their banner in your browser. However it is a free-service and that’s is their business model. I prefer is.gd and tend to use that, or bit.ly for its analytics capabilities.

Tony C who comments above has done what I still haven’t done but am considering: he renamed his prior account and unfollowed some people, then continued on as @thewordpressguy – a good strategy which is working for him. I have to figure out if I should do that too – and consolidate, or not. I am going to blog further on this.

Cheers,
Tony Hollingsworth

]]> By: BuildAWebsiteTonight http://heidiallen.id.au/developing-a-digital-strategy-011-practicalities-tweeting-from-multiple-accounts/#comment-3525 BuildAWebsiteTonight Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:39:04 +0000 http://www.heidiallen.id.au/?p=1299#comment-3525 Thanks for writing back Heidi. You're right, different applications suit different people and their needs, and there are certainly plenty of solutions available these days. It's great to read about and see what other are using, which helps us all make informed choices. Your article certainly does that - thanks! I'm not too happy about the bar on website pages either, I'm in the habit of closing it whenever I see it now :-) Tony's tips on diff twitter accounts is exactly what I've done for the different projects I work on, and works like a charm. PS - I'm attending my first Inner West Sydney Coffee Morning in Leichhardt tomorrow, and looking forward to it! Keep up the great tips! Cheers Teena Hughes http://BuildAWebsiteTonight.com http://twitter.com/build_website Thanks for writing back Heidi. You’re right, different applications suit different people and their needs, and there are certainly plenty of solutions available these days. It’s great to read about and see what other are using, which helps us all make informed choices. Your article certainly does that – thanks!

I’m not too happy about the bar on website pages either, I’m in the habit of closing it whenever I see it now :-)

Tony’s tips on diff twitter accounts is exactly what I’ve done for the different projects I work on, and works like a charm.

PS – I’m attending my first Inner West Sydney Coffee Morning in Leichhardt tomorrow, and looking forward to it!

Keep up the great tips!
Cheers
Teena Hughes
http://BuildAWebsiteTonight.com
http://twitter.com/build_website

]]> By: Heidi Allen http://heidiallen.id.au/developing-a-digital-strategy-011-practicalities-tweeting-from-multiple-accounts/#comment-3524 Heidi Allen Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:57:36 +0000 http://www.heidiallen.id.au/?p=1299#comment-3524 Hi Teena! - I have used Hootsuite and found it very user friendly, however the bar it has along the top does put some people off as it doesn't give the original url (albeit shortened). That said it's a great application. You're right about a browser based solution being less hungry too which can have a big impact if you're doing a lot of tweeting (managing 8 twitter accounts must take some doing!). The mix up for me is exactly when I reply or retweet because the account is then already selected from which I'm going to reply and sometimes it's the wrong one. but that's just practice as well as paying attention I guess! Hi Teena! – I have used Hootsuite and found it very user friendly, however the bar it has along the top does put some people off as it doesn’t give the original url (albeit shortened). That said it’s a great application. You’re right about a browser based solution being less hungry too which can have a big impact if you’re doing a lot of tweeting (managing 8 twitter accounts must take some doing!). The mix up for me is exactly when I reply or retweet because the account is then already selected from which I’m going to reply and sometimes it’s the wrong one. but that’s just practice as well as paying attention I guess!

]]> By: Heidi Allen http://heidiallen.id.au/developing-a-digital-strategy-011-practicalities-tweeting-from-multiple-accounts/#comment-3523 Heidi Allen Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:52:13 +0000 http://www.heidiallen.id.au/?p=1299#comment-3523 Thanks Tony, having a twitter stream with a focus really helps to get the most out of twitter - I like what you say about having different followers in different streams. Makes sense. Thanks Tony, having a twitter stream with a focus really helps to get the most out of twitter – I like what you say about having different followers in different streams. Makes sense.

]]> By: BuildAWebsiteTonight http://heidiallen.id.au/developing-a-digital-strategy-011-practicalities-tweeting-from-multiple-accounts/#comment-3522 BuildAWebsiteTonight Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:46:30 +0000 http://www.heidiallen.id.au/?p=1299#comment-3522 Hi there Heidi, Nice article. I use http://HootSuite.com to track 8 twitter accounts daily, and it's never sent a tweet from the wrong account. On the other hand, I may have used the wrong personality, but it wasn't the software's fault :-) Hootsuite's great - if you are writing a new tweet, no FROM NAME/Twitter Name is selected until you manually click the Twitter Account name you wish to send from. If you're replying or retweeting, the FROM NAME/Twitter name is already selected. Hootsuite is browser-based and doesn't depend on Adobe Air like many other solutions ... and Adobe Air is known to be very memory-hungry. I'm sure others have their favourites, just wanted to let you know which one I've settled on and which works great for me. Plus it's easy to see replies, sent tweets, direct msgs etc for each account. Cheers! Teena Hughes <a href="http://BuildAWebsiteTonight.com" rel="nofollow">http://BuildAWebsiteTonight.com</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/build_website" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/build_website</a> Hi there Heidi,

Nice article. I use http://HootSuite.com to track 8 twitter accounts daily, and it’s never sent a tweet from the wrong account. On the other hand, I may have used the wrong personality, but it wasn’t the software’s fault :-)

Hootsuite’s great – if you are writing a new tweet, no FROM NAME/Twitter Name is selected until you manually click the Twitter Account name you wish to send from.

If you’re replying or retweeting, the FROM NAME/Twitter name is already selected.

Hootsuite is browser-based and doesn’t depend on Adobe Air like many other solutions … and Adobe Air is known to be very memory-hungry.

I’m sure others have their favourites, just wanted to let you know which one I’ve settled on and which works great for me. Plus it’s easy to see replies, sent tweets, direct msgs etc for each account.

Cheers!
Teena Hughes
http://BuildAWebsiteTonight.com
http://twitter.com/build_website

]]> By: Tony Cosentino http://heidiallen.id.au/developing-a-digital-strategy-011-practicalities-tweeting-from-multiple-accounts/#comment-3520 Tony Cosentino Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:06:55 +0000 http://www.heidiallen.id.au/?p=1299#comment-3520 Well this is a humbling post, thanks for the mention Heidi. I have found it so much easier to manage my twitter life with multiple accounts. My @thewordpressguy tweets feed onto my website and show tips and advice without to much banter going on. Whereas my @thelatteguy account is all about banter and conversation which I can freely do with that type of account. Another thing I did when I split my twitter personality was to unfollow all of the people I had reciprocal followed but never made contact with. Wow did my twitter stream clean up from a polluted looking mess to a clean flow with great tweets from people I actually connect with regularly. But that's another post topic for you I guess. all the best @thewordpressguy @thelatteguy Well this is a humbling post, thanks for the mention Heidi. I have found it so much easier to manage my twitter life with multiple accounts. My @thewordpressguy tweets feed onto my website and show tips and advice without to much banter going on. Whereas my @thelatteguy account is all about banter and conversation which I can freely do with that type of account.

Another thing I did when I split my twitter personality was to unfollow all of the people I had reciprocal followed but never made contact with. Wow did my twitter stream clean up from a polluted looking mess to a clean flow with great tweets from people I actually connect with regularly. But that’s another post topic for you I guess.

all the best
@thewordpressguy
@thelatteguy

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