Add multiple blogs to one Twitter account with Twitter Tools

0Hillary • 22nd Feb 2011 • Social Media, Social Media, Twitter • Twitter Tools

This drove me crazy this morning – how do you set up Twitter Tools if you have more than one blog you want to feed into one Twitter account. Where the heck (or can you) do it?

I found loads of posts on how to update more than one Twitter account (Hootsuite, other WP plugins), new plugins (Twitter Adder… hmm, looks intriguing), how to use one e-mail address with multiple Twitter accounts, but nothing on setting up two blogs to one Twitter account. I visited Alex King's Twitter Tools site for answers, being that he's the plugin daddy, but found nothing there.

Granted, I do tend to browse for what I need quickly, so perhaps I missed that pertinent post, comment or support file on how it's done.

I went back to the tool and, of course, rather bluntly, the answer was staring me in the face. I really think I need better glasses…

After logging into your Twitter Tools set up, type in the usual info, add the callbak URL, etc. Then, before answering the captcha question and clicking submit, click the little blue link where the Callback URL is.

In the Domain field, type in the domain without http:// – then click Authorize. You'll see, as the image above shows, the main Callback URL and then under the new domain to add with an X in the circle (so you can delete it if you don't want it later).

You can manage your domains by clicking the link on the left.

To set up your second blog with Twitter Tools to feed into the one Twitter account, click the appropriate buttons to get the codes to plug into the back end of your blog. The same codes will be used for both blogs. I won't go into how to set up Twitter Tools as you can find those instructions on WordPress Relief and if you don't have the plugin, you can learn more about it (and get it) from WordPress.

 

Nothing more to it than that… happy testing.