How To Add Another Account On Twitter

Do you lot want to go on your business and personal lives divide on Twitter? Maybe you want to get political, create a parody business relationship, or endeavor your hand at being an influencer. Instead of mixing business organization and pleasance, just create a 2d (or third) Twitter business relationship and switch between them.

You can create as many Twitter accounts as you want, but you can simply connect up to five accounts. However, most people should find two accounts—one personal and 1 professional—to exist sufficient. If that isn't cutting it, you lot can always expand.

Each account needs to take a different username, only they can all be linked to the same phone number. If y'all want to utilise the aforementioned Gmail for multiple accounts, just add a dot anywhere in the username ([e-mail protected] vs. [e-mail protected], for case). Twitter will read these tweaked addresses as completely different users despite the fact they all bespeak to the same business relationship. If you use Yahoo, Outlook, or whatever other email service, y'all will have to use different addresses for each account.

Here is how to create and manage multiple accounts on the web or through the Twitter mobile app for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.

Create a Twitter Business relationship

If you don't already have a Twitter account, head to Twitter.com or open the mobile app and click the Sign Up button. The service volition and then lead you through the setup procedure. Enter your name; this tin be whatsoever yous want, but Twitter will ultimately design a username based on it. Then enter either a phone number or email address and click Next on the acme right.

You are then asked if you want to be tracked when you lot see Twitter content on other websites. Turn off this choice by checking the box next to Track where you encounter Twitter content beyond the web, then click Adjacent.

Confirm your proper name, phone number (or e-mail accost), and engagement of nascency. Click the Sign upwardly button and and so click the OK button to receive a verification code via email or text. Enter the code into the verification code field and click Next. Yous can and then create a password.

Yous volition then have the pick to add a contour photograph and bio. While you tin can skip adding a bio for now, we do recommend adding a photograph because Twitter lets people cake notifications from accounts with the default profile photograph. The recommended dimensions for a profile photograph on Twitter are 400-by-400 pixels.

Yous tin then choose your interests, and Twitter volition suggest accounts you might want to follow. Click the Follow button adjacent to any names that involvement you, or click the Follow push button at the top of the screen to follow them all. At the side by side screen, you tin skip notifications.

If yous're on your phone, y'all can sync Twitter with your contacts to find friends on the platform and select those you lot want to follow.

Twitter and then places you lot at your timeline page. Your display name and username (your @ handle) are visible at the lesser of the left pane. You may want to modify these monikers to something more suitable, though. To exercise so, click the More icon in the left page and select Settings and privacy.

In the Your Account section, click the entry for Account information and so click Username. You can at present change it to something else. Your username must exist fifteen characters or less and contain only letters, numbers, and underscores with no spaces. Equally you fashion your username, Twitter alerts y'all if yous're using an unsupported character or if the proper noun is already taken. When you create an adequate name, Twitter will finish flagging information technology. Click Save.

To change your display name, navigate to your Twitter folio (twitter.com/[your username]), click Edit Profile, and enter something new under Name. You lot can change your username and brandish name on the web or in the mobile app.

Add a Second Twitter Account

Now, if you desire to create a 2nd account, the process is slightly unlike in the app versus on the spider web. Open the Twitter app and sign in with your existing account. On an iPhone, tap the hamburger carte in the upper left and tap the three-dot Contour icon. On an iPad, tap the More icon and and then tap the Profile icon. If y'all're on an Android device, tap the contour icon in the upper left and then tap the down arrow.

Tap Create a new account. Twitter will take y'all through the business relationship setup process and request the same information information technology does when creating your first account. You lot tin tap Add an existing account to link your second existing Twitter account to your phone. Once y'all sign in, you lot should see multiple accounts listed in the app.

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Unlike the app, Twitter on the web will just let you add together an existing business relationship. If you need to create a new account, yous will have to log out and create it first. You tin add an existing account past clicking the three-dot icon next to your display name in the lesser-left corner. Click Add together an existing account and sign into that account.

How to Switch Accounts

After yous've set upward your second account, it's time to effigy out how to juggle both of your Twitter accounts. On the website, click your username in the bottom-left corner to view all your connected accounts. Click the 1 you want to view and you lot will change Twitter accounts.

Switching between accounts on mobile varies slightly based on the device y'all're using. On an iPhone, tap the hamburger card and then tap the Contour icon of the business relationship you desire. On an iPad, tap the More icon and then tap the ellipsis icon. Android users can tap the Contour icon, so tap the downward arrow. You can then select a username to switch accounts.

Continue in listen that if you connect an business relationship on the web, you will also need to connect it in the app, and vice versa.

Disconnect an Account

If you decide you no longer want to juggle multiple Twitter accounts, you can log out of your extra account to make it disappear from the listing. A more permanent solution would be to deactivate it entirely. Open the account y'all wish to remove and enter Settings and privacy > Business relationship, and so select Deactivate your account. Follow the steps to deactivate the business relationship. You'll need to enter your Twitter countersign before you tin brand it official.

Finally, having multiple accounts is a good way to keep your business and professional lives separate, but creating faux accounts to harass or hassle people is not okay and is against Twitter policy. If that's your goal, it might be time for you lot to get a life, not a new Twitter business relationship.

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