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Really looking forward to this feature! Loving the transparency and human element it will add to company accounts. And yes, now managers will know exactly who tweeted what! Hoping it will integrate with TweetDeck!
I love the idea of this new feature, too - I especially think it will be great to receive credit for the tweets I've made and also help followers know where to direct follow-up questions. Though CoTweet has the benefit of "assigning" tweets to certain people, it might encourage more followers to contact the direct source of the tweet.
Great new feature! Can't wait
This is SUPER! I share a company account with my partner and we sometimes confuse people since we both tweet from the same account. This new feature will work great to cut out the confusion and let the person on the other end know exactly who they are talking with.
I can't wait to implement this new feature!
Once this is operational, how is it recommended for companies with multiple Twitter accounts to merge into 1 (contributors) without loosing followers, DM's, tweets sent, etc.? Thanks, Jennifer
Really useful feature. I have been trying to get my employees to make best use of social media. I had to take burden of 'co-tweeting'. Thank you Twitter. Thank you HubSpot!
Best,
Shail
@sunshail
@mobisoftinfo
Great! My real estate company has 30+ agents and probably 10 will use this feature.
Def a good idea, indeed it will share the task of corporate tweeting. I think it will help in the next stage of increasing followers of @rentokil.
Other pest control companies seem to be going hell for leather selling their services, whereas we are using it mainly for education and information as werll as driving traiifc to our blog.
Great news. We are several people that tweet from the same account about our website info at http://www.understandhairloss.org and this will make it a lot easier...
This could definately help in writing our 2010 strategy! Does anyone know the expected date of this new feature?
@susanreed_net
Great news. We are several people that tweet from the same account about our website info at http://www.understandhairloss.org and this will make it a lot easier...
The new contributors' feature Twitter will launch soon will definitely help share the tweet load. And from what I am reading it will be something that integrates with existing business accounts... hopefully???
Posterous just rolled out the same thing a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, this is fantastic for brand building on the social wed!
Kinda cool. I've always taken the easy way... just share the id and password with whoever needs it. Voila: group Twitter account.
Hi Rebecca,
Do you know how this is being implemented?
1. Will contributors have to log in to the "corporate" account?
2. Or will the "corporate" account simply be an aggregator of the "contributor" accounts?
3. Or perhaps the contributors can tweet from their regular account, but flag the tweet in some way as a contribution?
Thanks,
Nat
Hey Nat,
I don't know the answers to any of these questions, actually. Twitter has only announced the general functionality and purpose of the feature. Also-- they will be rolling it out to a handful of businesses at a time to analyze usage. Most likely once launched, the feature will continue to develop and improve based on user feedback.
Check out Twitter's blog. That's where I'm keeping my eye out.
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/feature-test-with-businesses.html
Sounds like a good business-friendly option, especially for companies that have contributors in various geographic locations.