Multiple Accounts on Twitter? Not for Me!

Hi Mike,

I understand what you are saying, however, I follow a few people who are not just scuba divers and use twitter to message all kinds of double speak that goes way over my head and I find infuriating as they seem to flood the site with these messages which I end up ignoring and then wishing I had not followed these people in the first place!

I'm in the same boat as you - I have several areas in which I blog but everything just now seems to end up at @barbaraling . Just because we might be marketers in one thing doesn't mean we can't be masters in others.

Mike, this clear and concise advice is right on the mark. You just saved your many readers a lot of grief! It seems intuitive to have separate accounts for distinct purposes and ventures, but now that you've identified these gaps and hiccups, I'm completely with you. Many thanks.

@sidneyeve

Hey Mike, you make a very good point about people missing out on certain aspects. I think running multiple accounts must be really difficult. I recently had to set one up, but I feel the same way, I am tweeting stuff that I would also like my CMoz to say. It's an odd dilemma. Still not sure how to resolve it.

Thanks for the feedback all. @simon it's a good point, although I would say that it's up to the Tweeter to find their own balance. The answer (if you're going to have one account to serve multiple purposes) is to mix up your tweets - just like you would your conversation in real life. When I'm out for a drink I don't talk exclusively about one subject, and I guess the same applies on Twitter.

Mike

Thanks for this post. I just followed you on Twitter with ID clickktdotcom. Hope I will be get for tips on Twitter!

I can see where you are coming from Mike. I recently created multiple Twitter accounts because I too have multiple blogs with diverse interests. However, from a marketing stand point (driving traffic, improving click-through and sales) I want my followers to have targetted information. When I blogged about my work with the Thesis theme and tweeted it on my ordinary Twitter account, I got less then 13/70 of my followers clicking the link. It was posted on my typography blog (http://typegeek.blogspot.com) and when I tweeted to my new Twitter account, 5/5 followers followed the link.. because it was targetted content.

I do run into the problem of keeping everything straight (my problem) but I know my readers will only get info they are interested instead of all the crap that many others Tweeters put out (their benefit).

My tweets are usually about making money online, blogging, wellness, or typography.

Hi Rick. Thanks for popping in to comment. I do think for some people multiple accounts will work. I'll be interested in hearing how it goes as your numbers grow. In the meantime, I'm off to have a look at your site.

Cheers

Mike

I run three blogs myself, but I never thought about having more than one account on Twitter. What I did instead was add a program that posts any new articles I write directly to Twitter, and somehow they all know they're from me, and life works out just fine.

By the way, this is the first personal blog I've been to using Drupal; wild! Looks like one of those group blog services I used to participate with; it's kind of freaking me out. lol