If you have a Twitter account for your website or business, you may want to allow multiple users to manage it. Allowing each individual user to identify themselves helps make the account seem more personal, showing that your account is being handled by a real person.
Twitter is working on allowing multiple users to tweet from business accounts, but hasn’t yet offered the functionality to everyone. In the meantime, several startups are rushing in to fill the gap. The most famous of these is CoTweet, but there’s also Bird Herd, a new startup in private beta (via ReadWriteWeb).
Bird Herd is easy to use-just give it access to the group account using OAuth, then add the individual Twitter usernames of the people you want to tweet on the account. individuals can then send a DM to the group account and have it broadcast as a tweet with their usernames added to the end.
Allowing someone access to the group Twitter account is as easy as adding their username to Bird Herd, and taking it away is as easy as hitting the “remove” button-no need to change the account password. Authorized users can use whatever Twitter client they’ve grown comfortable with, and Bird Herd will forward DMs to their accounts for them to sort through.
If you have a large organization, CoTweet is still a better option at the moment. Both tools are “free for now,” so we’ll have to wait and see which ends up offering the better value when premium accounts and monthly fees come into play.
What do you think of Bird Herd?
Our Rating of BirdHerd
Categories:social
Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF http://bit.ly/cv58A5 #news #twitter
RT @GaianCollective: RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
RT @GaianCollective: RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF http://bit.ly/awoZ3n Twitter.alltop.com
RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
BirdHerd ermöglicht mehreren Usern das Updaten eines Twitter Accounts – UsefulTools.com http://bit.ly/6RdOwA
RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
RT @sa_mobileman: RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF /via @Twitter_Tips
Nützliches Tool: Mit #BirdHerd können mehrere User einen Twitter Account füttern http://j.mp/cbk5GF via @Twitter_Tips
Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account http://bit.ly/6RdOwA
Who asked recently about how to set up multiple users of a single Twitter account? Info for from @Twitter_Tips: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
@ABODEHome RT @WichitaCindy: how to set up multiple users of a single Twitter account @Twitter_Tips: http://j.mp/cbk5GF // useful for us?
Was it @Cox_Jessica? RT @WichitaCindy: Who asked how to set up multiple users of a single Twitter account? @Twitter_Tips: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
RT @dudeman718: RT @Alyssa_Milano: How to: Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF (via @Twitter_Tips)
Useful! How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF http://bit.ly/9LhzXl Twitter.alltop.com
RT @Alyssa_Milano: How to: Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF (via @Twitter_Tips)
Useful! How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF http://is.gd/7jlTY
RT @socialmediajs: Useful! How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF http://bit.ly/cyRFcZ #news #twitter
RT @webaddict: RT @dudeman718: RT @Alyssa_Milano: How to: Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF (via @Twitt …
RT @dudeman718: RT @Alyssa_Milano: How to: Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF (via @Twitter_Tips)
RT @webaddict: RT @dudeman718: RT @Alyssa_Milano: How to: Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF (via @Twitt …
RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful! How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful! How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: Sin Descripción http://bit.ly/al9mm6
RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful! How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF good for businesses?
BirdHerd – Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account – UsefulTools.com http://ow.ly/11XVb
Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account – UsefulTools.com http://ow.ly/11W8Q
RT @Alyssa_Milano: How to: Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF (via @Twitter_Tips)
RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
RT @Melissa808: RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
RT @Twitter_Tips Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
BirdHerd – Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account – UsefulTools.com http://bit.ly/6RdOwA
Great explanation and write-up. Thank you! I go an invite but the instructions on the site are not clear, so I wasn’t sure how to use it. After reading this I now get it and find this very useful!
BirdHerd – Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account – UsefulTools.com http://bit.ly/6RdOwA
Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account http://bit.ly/5i6QFw #birdherd
RT @Twitter_Tips: Useful: How to Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://j.mp/cbk5GF
How to: Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account: http://myurl.pk/b6p
BirdHerd – Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account – UsefulTools.com http://bit.ly/6RdOwA
RT @usefultools: Tool of the Day: BirdHerd: Let multiple users tweet from a single Twitter account http://su.pr/5YN1gc
BirdHerd – Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account – UsefulTools.com http://bit.ly/7cMXca
BirdHerd – Add Multiple Users To A Single Twitter Account – UsefulTools.com http://bit.ly/7cMXca