twitter manager needed…
I dont know how it happened, but I went from having no twitter accounts, to having three…all in the matter of a few months. But, unfortunately for me…the system of twitter “account management” seems to be behind my speed of adopting new twitter accounts, and now Im in a bit of a mess….and struggling with how to manage, log in and update the various accounts. There must be a better way, and hence…there must be an opportunity for some developer to develop and app to fill this need… (if you know of any, please let me know)
Here is what happened…
- First of all, I started with my personal account: @briandbutler , and that was going along ok. I was putting my personal thoughts, as well as my professional ones, and also posting my random innovation.
- But, then I was invited to help setup @ForumNexus on twitter. Yes, Im the country manager (Brazil) and also a teacher in this excellent program (shameless self plug
- Then, I thought… oh, how about a separate twitter account for @kookyplan for discussions specifically related to KookyPlan, innovation, entrepreneurship, and an outlet for my ideas I want to share with others
Its all good… but, now… I need a twitter manager!
Here is my idea:
- Someone needs to come up with a way that I can log in with just my name, but then have access to all of my various accounts without needing to logout and re-log back in again.
- I need options, control, and an easy interface..
More (for advanced social media twitter users):
- For anyone that uses twitter as a central conduit to controls messages being sent over to other networks (to Facebook, Linkedin, Friendfeed, etc)….you might understand my problem here…
- Lets say I post this blog post. Ok, I have it set up to automatically tell twitter about my posting. Ok, and I have twitter set up to automatically tell Facebook, Friendfeed, etc. Ok…all is working well… until… until I set up multiple twitter accounts.
- Then, with multiple twitter accounts, I have a problem… I can only choose one feed from twitter to feed into my other accounts (facebook, etc), so…. If I have my personal twitter account set up as my central “conduit”, but if Im posting in @kookyplan, then the message ends in twitter, and doesnt make it to my other sites… and the great “conduit” functionality of twitter is lost.
- What is needed: twitter account management tools so that I can selectively choose which messages get sent on to which networks AT THE TIME of my original twitter message.
- A simple drop down menu to select which of my OTHER networks BEYOND twitter will receive this message that I am sending.
- But… for now….without tools to allow users to control which messages get sent where, its turing into a real time-management challenge for users with multiple accounts.
Please, someone out there… fix this!
While I might be one of the few people so far that have opened up not just one, but three twitter accounts…its clear to me that others will surely find this same challenge in the future. For example, I was recently reading that Fred Wilson, a VC and principal of Union Square Ventures was setting up a twitter account at both his personal (@fredwilson) and professional (@avc) accounts. He must be encountering the same type of challenges I am (and maybe thought of better solutions that I have).
There must be someone out there working on an “account management” system for Twitter. If not… I suggest you get working…
Note: this blog post will be automatically broadcast to my @kookyplan twitter account…but, if I want anyone from my other networks to hear about it, I will need to go in manually and re-twitt that same message on my personal @briandbutler account (log out, log back in)…man, its not worth the trouble!
if you know any existing solutions to this mess… please post your thought in the comments section of this blog…
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