Do you have a need to combine multiple twitter accounts into a master twitter feed?

Imagine you run a company and need to display tweets from your employees on a unified twitter account. Now you don’t want your employees to have to log into out of multiple accounts. This is easier to do than you might think, the method which follows makes use of RSS feeds the free TwitterFeed service.

Get the Feed URL for all of your Twitter users that need to included in your unified Twitter account

1. Your first step is to open up the Twitter search page http://search.twitter.com and type the following search term in the query field from:username (replace username for the username of a user) in my example the above query would read from:netmoneyfaq (the query you have just performed will find the most recent posts for the username you have just specified)



2. Now you will notice in the top right hand corner a link named Feed for this Query right click and copy this feed address to your notepad. (Repeat steps 1 and 2 for all Twitter user you need published under your unified company Twitter account

Adding your tweeters feed URL into TwitterFeed

1. If you don’t already have head over for your free account at TwitterFeed http://TwitterFeed.com Note you will need an OpenID account to open an account (TwitterFeed will step you thru this process)



2. Now that you are logged in click Create new feed



3. For the Field Create New XX Feed select twitter from the drop down box



4. Link your TwitterFeed and Twitter account by clicking >> Authenticate at twitter 



5. In the field RSS Feed URL: paste the feed URL you copied from one from the twitter search results of one of your users (Step 2 above)



6. Leave all of the other fields set as default just like the screenshot below.



7. Click Create and repeat this process in TwitterFeed for all of your users Twitter accounts

Advanced Twitter & TwitterFeed method tweet only specific tweets

Now if you want to get a little more advanced, and have the requirement to only post specific tweets from your employees, you can easily do so with the use of the TwitterFeeds feature Filter by keywords along with a pre defined search string or hash tag (i.e. #CompPst)

You would simply tell your staff if they need to tweet to the companies twitter account to include the has tag #CompPst (or any other pre determined string, preferably shorter) to their Tweet, then one you have the same string set in the field Filter by keywords only posts with your pre-defined string will be tweeted under the company’s twitter account.