Community Magazine - Is Having Multiple Twitter Accounts Beneficial?

Let’s get right to the point. Twitter can be a great way to drive traffic to your website if it is used correctly. This means providing quality content and links to your followers provided they are in your niche and their interests are not spread too thin.

The process is simple. Search for people in your niche using the Twitter search function. Follow them and about half will follow you back. Unfollow those who do not follow you back after a reasonable amount of time. Add more followers in your niche. Rinse. Repeat. Not bad. Hey, wait a second. What if I had two accounts?

Then that would automatically yield twice as many followers! Hold on a second. That is not quite true. Let’s think about this logically. There is something that we need to ask before pursuing this avenue. Are any of these Twitter accounts we are following duplicates? When I first jumped on the Twitter train, I opened up six accounts and started following people as fast as I could.

I soon realized that I was seeing the same followers under different accounts even when I searched using different keywords. Here is an important point. Unless you have special software that automatically inter-compares all of your twitter accounts, there is a decent chance that some or many of these accounts are following more than one of your accounts depending on just how you search for people to follow.

Could you be wasting your valuable time with duplicated efforts? This means that every time you tweet, that follower gets the same message from you twice, provided you are using software or a service which auto-posts to all of them at once or something similar, which is annoying. Can you say “Unfollow”?

When it comes to Twitter, it is best to stick to the basics. Provide quality. Interact. Unless you know for a fact that none of you followers are duplicates, it is probably best to have just one account. As a bonus, read this post on automating Twitter so that you do not waste a ton of time on it. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment. Related posts:

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