How to Setup Multiple Twitter Accounts with One Email Address
GMail, Google, Social Media, Tips, Twitter — By Matthew Tommasi on 12 June 2009 3:47 pm
Have you ever tried to signup for a second Twitter account using an email address that has already been used?
You can’t,
Twitter only allows you to have one account per unique email address.
There is a way around this and I will show you how. The only thing you need is a Gmail address.
Gmail has a nice feature where you can create aliases.
An alias is where you add “+something” after your Gmail username and before the “@gmail.com”
Eg,
My Gmail address is – matthewtommasi[at]gmail.com and for this guide I am going to create the following alias,
- matthewtommasi+twitter1@gmail.com
With aliases,
- You can have as many aliases as you want per Gmail username
- Aliases can be as short as one character long after the + symbol, eg testuser+1@gmail.com
Before we move onto Twitter, we need to do two things with your Gmail account,
- Create a label
- Create a filter
Create a Label
Login to your Gmail account and next to the search field in Gmail click on the create a filter link,
In the To field, enter your Gmail username + alias, then click <Next Step>,
Check the option Apply the label, then select New label,
Enter a new label name, then click <OK>,
Create a Filter
Click on <Create Filter>,
Your filter has now been created and any incoming mail to that address will also have that label applied to it,
Done! Your Gmail alias has now been setup.
Now send a test email (from yourself) to your newly created alias to see if it works,
Successfully received and the new label is also visible,
Head over to Twitter and signup for a new account.
In the email field enter your newly created Gmail alias, then click <Create My Account>,
Success!
You have just created a new Twitter account using Gmail aliases,
Just repeat the above steps if you want to add multiple Twitter accounts to your primary Gmail account.. by using Gmail aliases.
Enjoy!
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Thanks ever so much for a nice, crisp series of footsteps to follow, Matt. Thorough job. Definitely worth a few RTs.
No worries Brenda.. thanks for the comment!
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Very clever, thanks for sharing, I never knew this was possible!
Thanks for the comment and thanks for letting me know that the images were duff!
All fixed up now!
Thanks
Matt
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Great tip, Matt! I had no idea this was possible.
P.S. Some of your screenshots are duff; I guess you re-used the same filenames for images in a different post!
Yes Gmail allows 'plus addressing' (aka aliases).
So in theory you could have many, many alias emails all hanging off your
primary Gmail account.
eg,
example+1@gmail.com, example+2@gmail.com, example+3@gmail.com,
example+4@gmail.com, example+5@gmail.com, etc could all hang off your
primary account example@gmail.com
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does this work for facebook as well? I'm trying to create seperate facebook pages for “characters” from a book, but I don't have 6 seperate people behind the characters, is there any way I can use an email aliases to have “separate emails” that all come back to me?
I have about 20 Twitter accounts, half are active and the rest will be soon. To set up another Twitter account, just logout and create a new account the same way you created the first one, however each account requires a different email address. If you have your own domain name, just set up a forwarding address to your existing address, then you don't have to check two email accounts. Also a cellphone can only be linked to one Twitter account. http://4xindia.com
To manage multiple accounts at the same time without logging in and out, I recommend using Twhirl, but Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop are a good popular choices too.
Sub-addressing is by no means restricted only to gmail. If you'd rather use something else, check to see whether your mail server supports it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Sub...
Hi Carri
IMHO I think having multiple Twitter accounts can be quite beneficial
especially if you want to keep your interests separated, eg personal vs
business.
And using a Twitter client that supports multiple accounts like CoTweet (my
personal fav), can make keeping track of DM's so simple.
Thanks for the comment.
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Interesting trick! I don't know if I'd ever take advantage of it because I think it's useful to tie DMs and followers to just one email, but I'll pass it along. You never know when it might come in handy.
@CarriBugbee
It is a nice little trick this one. Have a great day an thanks for the comment.
Matt
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Thanks! Very useful. I'll surely recommend this to all my friends.
Thanks. I will recommend this to all my friends.
Indeed. The alternative, which I use as I have my own domain with unlimited email accounts to create, is I create twitter1@domain.com, twitter2@domain.com, etc., and have them auto-forward wherever I choose.
nice tutorial… gmail aliases are very useful.. thanks for introducing me to them
Thanks for the comment.. it definitely comes in handy having more than one
account.
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How to Setup Multiple Twitter Accounts with One Email Address
Useful information on how to setup more than one twitter account using one gmail account.
Thanks for the comment.
Yes this is a great feature of Gmail, really handy for Twitter power users!
I really like your post on it as well.. nice graphic.
well, I thought only few people know this method. go to see my example, BullishChina.com
if your email address is : abcdef@gmail.com, then “a.bcdef”, “ab.cdef”, “abc.def”, “abcd.ef” … … “a.b.c.d.e.f” all these emails belong to you and they are nicknames, none can apply these Gmail accounts. More poweful, you can add “+” to identify what kind of serive you once apply and signup.
Thanks for the comment.
You'll now be a power twitter user!
Thanks for the tip, I was just thinking how to create multiply twitter account – personal and business, and didn't know gmail has such nice feature!
Thanks for the comment! Glad it worked out for you.
Matt
Wow… thanks just what I need
Thanks – great tip!
Love it, been making separate emails all day. U are a gawd sir!
Hi Kim
Twitter suspended my account yesterday for some unknown reason.. and I am trying to get it unsuspended..
You can also follow me at @socialguide
@Matthew_Tomassi FYI, I clicked on your Twitter icon at top of your website and it takes me to a suspended account? Please fix
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