Using the same email address to add more Twitter accounts

Posted on by Mark

How can you set up a new Twitter account, but use the same email address? I have set up at least 3 other Twitter accounts, using the same email address.

This may well be a loophole that Twitter may close – who knows?

I used Googlemail

I have a gmail email account, and what is really clever by the folks over at Google, is that you can add a [dot], anywhere in the email address. Your mail will still arrive at your googlemail account, but as far as Twitter is concerned, it is a new email address..

An example…

If you had the gmail email address davesmith24@googlemail.com, you could also use the following examples….

davesmith24@googlemail.com
dave.smith24@googlemail.com
dav.esmith24@googlemail.com
da.vesmith24@googlemail.com

Apologies if there is a dave smith on google, and this is his email address..

Get the picture… All of these email addresses will end up at your main googlemail address, but as far as Twitter is concerned, it is a new email address.

  • http://www.intelligentchoicesltd.com Max

    Great tip, Mark, thanks. This will make life a great deal easier for many. Let’s hope that Twitter won’t catch on for a while yet.

  • http://natefanaro.com Nate

    That’s a good tip. I use something similar when creating multiple twitter accounts. Gmail and a few other mail services offer sub-addressing. With gmail you can add a + and whatever text you want after the username portion of your email address.

    So when I make a new account my email address looks like this:
    gmailusername+newtwitterusername@gmail.com

    One advantage to this is you can use an unlimited number of email addresses instead of running out of characters to place periods in between. You can also create mail filter rules based on each account you create. This is helpful if you want to label follow or dm notifications automatically per account.

  • Mike Minh

    A risky way of doing this because you won’t notice when twitter changes tghis “loophole”. By the time you realise it, you might have lost business. I think you should use email aliases instead. Pretty much the only professional way.

    Googlemail addresses are also not very business-like, however much one can add after a “+” symbol.