Manage multiple staff Twitterers
If you've got more than one person twittering from an account, you need a way to identify the crew. It's a good idea to have a three-pronged approach:
Include names in the 160-character Bio. That's the place that search engines look for information, and it's also the place the Twitter API will draw from to represent your account in third-party clients and applications (described in Chapter 2). Of course, 160 characters isn't much room, and you may wind up just listing first names and perhaps the team department.
Create a custom background, like the one shown here, to identify everyone. The vast majority of people will see your account on the Twitter website, and a custom background like this—which includes the name, picture, personal accounts and initials for each person—is a great way to go.
Sign messages with the initials of whomever is posting. Just prefix the initials with a piece of punctuation to help signal that it's a signature.
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