One of my non-profit clients is planning a Twitter campaign for a major event in June. They want to have tweets from multiple personal Twitter accounts copied to a single corporate Twitter account.
Note: For more about managing two or more Twitter accounts, see “Combining Broadcaster And Connector Twitter Accounts“).
For example, each time one of the staff tweets about the event from his or her personal Twitter account,? it will repost to the corporate Twitter account. The goal is to automatically create a lively, central point of Twitter activity using multiple personal Twitter accounts.
Like so:
There are two challenges for this organization:
- They have limited time and resources. The staff can’t afford to waste time logging in and out of personal? and corporate Twitter accounts.
- They need to have personal lives. By taking RSS feeds from all of their tweets and and sending them straight to the single corporate account, they each have to put limits on their Twitter social lives. Otherwise, tweets like “Just got tickets to AC/DC! Can’t wait to sing “Hells Bells” with all my peeps” get posted on the corporate account.
Here’s how to copy tweets from many personal Twitter accounts to a single corporate Twitter account (without sacrificing your Twitter social life):
1. Grab the RSS feed from a Twitter search – like so:
2. Click on “Feed for this query” and copy the link (right click mouse)
3. Next, create an account at TwitterFeed and click “Create new feed”
4. Paste the RSS feed that you copied into the field labeled “RSS Feed URL“. Test the feed.
5. Select your preferred update frequency and select “post up to 1 new update each time“.
6. Select “Include item link”.
7. Select a prefix, if needed.
8. *The most important step (remember their 2nd challenge?): Filter the feed with a designated hashtag you will use to select tweets to be reposted the corporate account. This way, from your personal account, you can select the tweets to be reposted by including “#yourhashtag” in the post.
9. Make sure “Active” is checked.
10. Click “Create”.
11. Repeat these steps for each personal account.
After you’ve completed these 11 steps, you should be able to selectively repost tweets from your personal accounts by using the hashtag within the post to be copied.
Let me know how this works!
