I have two accounts on Twitter – the @labnol handle that I use for writing personal tweets and the other account is @labnolfeed that some people use to follow this blog on Twitter.
If you are like me and have multiple accounts on Twitter, you are probably aware of the fact that you cannot associate the same email address with multiple Twitter accounts. Try that and Twitter will throw up an error saying – "Email has already been taken".
There’s however a simple workaround that will let you use the same email address with all your Twitter handles – the only condition is that you should be using a Gmail or Google Apps email address.
In Gmail, you can add a dot (.) anywhere in the username and all emails marked to that new address will still reach your own Inbox. For instance, if your original email address is hello@gmail.com, any emails sent to he.llo@gmail.com or he.ll.o@gmail.com will safely reach you as Gmail will automatically ignore the periods in the username.
And that’s what you can use to trick Twitter.
Twitter will consider hello@gmail and he.llo@gmail as two separate and valid email addresses even though they point to the same Gmail Inbox.
Another Workaround
When you open an account in Gmail, you automatically get another valid email address that uses the googlemail.com domain.
So if you only have two handles on twitter, you can use the gmail.com address with one handle and the googlemail.com address with the second handle.
Check the Twitter guide for more tricks.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/one-email-for-multiple-twitter-accounts/9492/
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Reader Comments
The username+xyz @gmail.com ploy would also work, right?
Written by Gautam on 08.20.09
Also, you can use + after the name.
If your email is john @gmail.com, both john+work @gmail.com or john+twitter @gmail.com will get your emails to the first address. Try it!
Written by ignacio on 08.20.09
That is awesome! I was looking for an alternative as I was getting a little over creating new email addresses all the time.
Written by Brad on 08.20.09
This trick is working from day1 of the Launch of Twitter and Spammers are using it big time to manage multiple twitter account.
@above
Yes you can use the all possible combinations allowed by Gmail to create multiple account..
But IMO it’s better to have and manage only one account to maintain your online identity.
Written by Harsh Agrawal on 08.20.09
(Slapping Forehead !)
Oh I should’ve remembered this ! (Going back to change e-mail addresses)
Thank you !
Written by Jaffer on 08.20.09
You could also try adding usernames to your existing gmail account. This is possible for both gmail and gmail included in google apps for domain.
Written by Meema Esguerra on 08.20.09
this is pretty neat idea!! awesomeness!! :-)
Written by Moksh Juneja on 08.21.09
The “dot trick” will not work with a Google Apps address. If you are using Google Apps (for domains), rather create a nickname for your email address, or set a wildcard account.
Written by michael lockyear on 08.21.09
I had read about a few of these things on other sites but they didn’t go into as much detail. Thanks for the posts.
Written by twitter on 08.21.09
looks like gmail bug :) well, by this way gmail is restricting itself for issuing more email id with the same name… he.llo@gmail and hel.lo @gmail.com must be considered as two different email ids…
Written by Kevin on 08.22.09
I have been using this trick for quiete sometime after i saw that google reserves all variations of your username reserved. Very sweet of them and of you for sharing it.
Also, if you want, try otherinbox.com account. it can create anything @yourusername.otherinbox.com email address delivered to the yourusername @yourusername.otherinbox.com address. Also, you can forward this to your gmail address. Pretty cool it is. In this way you dont have to remember where the tiny dot is =D
Written by Arun Vijayan on 08.22.09