Group Posting to Twitter Using Group Tweet
by Antonio
A colleague recently asked me how I set up the WA Mash Twitter account so that it allowed for students to be able to post to that account. While I feel strongly that Twitter needs to find a way to set up groups, waiting for that to happen may have you waiting a long time. After searching for other options, I landed across a service called GroupTweet.
Group Tweet essential asks you to set up a generic Twitter account that you specifically intend to use for this function and register it with their site. Once the site is registered with GroupTweet, you then ask the group, in my case, my creative writing class to follow that Twitter account. Once they are following all they need to do is send a direct Tweet to that registered account and unlike a regular Twitter account where it sits in a private inbox, it will post to the group account publicly.
I know that there might be a danger with allowing this to happen because anyone who follows that account can send a direct message to it and have it display publicly, but it does show who sent the post and in 3 months of using the service, I have fortunately had no problems. If you are a teacher looking to use Twitter for group discussion/collaboration I suggest you check it out.
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Comments
I wondered how you managed multiple acct users. Thx for sharing. I’ll check this out.
You bet Peter. It’s not perfect but it does a pretty good job.