Comments on: A New Twitter Account For WWW 2010

By: Therew.Edublogs.Org

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By: The Man Who Didn’t Tweet Twice « Little Storping-in-the-Swuff

The Man Who Didn’t Tweet Twice « Little Storping-in-the-Swuff — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:56:22 +0000

[...] I’m going to use a “live” account (this is something I’ve seen @MikeNolan do very effectively as @MikeNolanLive) for conferences and the like. However I’m finding it hard to see the [...]

By: Jeremy Speller

Jeremy Speller — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:51:50 +0000

I nicked the idea from Mike and have been using @spellerlive for about a year now. At a conference people follow the hashtag, not the people. This means that as long as you hashtag your secondary account properly no one should have to follow you (unless they want to via the cross-referral mentioned by Mike above). The problem with too many secondaries is that a unique email address is required to associate with each Twitter account and you soon run out of email addresses!! Unless someone knows different…

By: Ian Cooper

Ian Cooper — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:49:32 +0000

I suspect cases like this would be less necessary if it were easier to configure twitter clients to show timelines excluding particular hashtags. For example, during the #debill debate I had several contacts tweeting away at >2 tweets/minute, which completely filled my timeline. It made me seriously consider unfollowing them as it was completely impossible to see what else was going on.

In the meantime these secondary accounts are a good way to not lose followers, I suspect ;-) (but please take Mike’s advice and cross-tweet (retweet) the really interesting stuff)

By: Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:42:10 +0000

I should mention that I got the idea from Martin Belam (aka @currybet / @currybet_live). I've found it can be quite a useful way of making quick notes about an event out of context of your normal Twitter stream so you don't have give detail about an event. In the past when I've used the live account I've cross promoted with my normal account, for example at the end of the day announcing:

MikeNolanLive: I normally tweet at @MikeNolan - I can't promise to be interesting - #plug #iwmc #iwmw2009

And announce from my main account a couple of times during the day interesting things that someone could see on the live stream.