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Topic # 165532 12-Feb-2015 14:47
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OK, I have the job of managing the Twitter account for my professional body.

I also have my own.

Twitter says the only way I can have both open is to use 'different browsers' but I do not know if they mean different windows in say Safari, or different browsers as in one open in Safari and one open in Chrome.

I want to be able to post and so on in both from my iMac (Yosemite) at the same time without logging in and out all the time.

Any ideas?





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  Reply # 1236630 12-Feb-2015 14:59
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Open a private browsing window for your second twitter account.

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  Reply # 1236631 12-Feb-2015 15:02
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https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/#

 

As simple as that. I run about 6 twitter accounts between my personal ones, work ones and a couple of band ones

 
 
 
 


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  Reply # 1236632 12-Feb-2015 15:03
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tweetdeck, hootsuite et al.

or use the phone app, it supports multiple accounts (but switching is a three-click affair)

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  Reply # 1236636 12-Feb-2015 15:04
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Tweetbot. Not cheap in Mac App Store Terms but it is by far my favourite.
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/tweetbot-for-twitter/id557168941?mt=12




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THe only thing to watch out for is to make sure you're tweeting from the right account each time HAHA

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Second Tweetdeck... it's great, and you can have all sorts of columns open. For example I have a column for all major NZ ISPs ...
If you have budget, then Sprout Social is a great tool.




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  Reply # 1236704 12-Feb-2015 16:47
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Yay for Tweetbot.

I looked at Tweetdeck but I could see what was going to happen sooner or later there...wrong account selected when posting..!

Tweetbot allows you to move fully between one and the other with a simple mouse click so that is more safe and easier for me.

Social media is a bit of a mystery to me frankly (being pretty misanthropic on the whole, I cannot imagine why I would want hundreds of people knowing about my life) but I got landed with the job of looking after the 'work' one on a pro bono basis so I have to at least pretend I know what I am doing. ;-)





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  Reply # 1236719 12-Feb-2015 17:17
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Twiiter is filled with a lot of nut jobs and can get quite nasty and bitter, a lot like facebook really. I find instagram is better as it is much more visual and a nicer environment.

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Tweetdeck. I also use Hootsuite for its scheduling and because work has Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn pages so it's multiplatform. I don't like having my personal account on a Hootsuite account where other team members could potentially see it so for Twitter only I use Tweetdeck.




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  Reply # 1236873 12-Feb-2015 22:35
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mattwnz: Twiiter is filled with a lot of nut jobs and can get quite nasty and bitter, a lot like facebook really. I find instagram is better as it is much more visual and a nicer environment.


It's all a bit strange to me.

I use it to curate information others may find interesting; I don't generally engage in any form of dialogue on it.

Anyone I want to hear from knows how to get hold of me!





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  Reply # 1237519 13-Feb-2015 18:01
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+1 tweetdeck




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