Can I make Twitter Tools publish to more than one Twitter account?

Everyone seems to have asked this one this week, so here goes :-)

The short answer is no, Twitter Tools will only send the automatic notifications of a new blog post to ONE Twitter account. And that's one Twitter account per WordPress install, not one Twitter account per blogger.

The easy way around that is to use Twitter Tools to automatically publish to one Twitter account, and something else to publish to another. I like Twitter Feed, which will publish not only to Twitter, but to Facebook as well, and has various bits of customisability, including whether you publish title and content or just title; post prefix ("New blog post: ") *and* post suffix, which can be useful for adding hashtags.

The neat thing about this set up is that you can publish two entirely different feeds. For example, with TameBay (which has multiple authors), I might want to publish *all* posts to @TameBay, but only the ones I've written myself to @blogmum. So for the latter, I'll use the author RSS feed rather than the "all posts" one.

And if you're publishing to more than two Twitter accounts, Twitter Feed will let you publish as many feeds to as many accounts as you like.

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Posted by Sue on February 14, 2010 in Twitter, WordPress.

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