If you are an affiliate marketer twitter is the place to be because its super easy to market to your target audience on that site. As an affiliate marketer targeting several different niches I find it a very good idea to have a twitter account targeting each market. The problem is that twitter only allows you to set up one account per email address. But I found a little work around. If you use gmail then this will work for you. Im not sure if it works on other services.
Gmail has a feature that allows you to set up several aliases and have them all forwarded to your main gmail account.
Here is how you set it up. Let’s say your main email address is Youremail@gmail.com. To add an alias you would add the “+” sign and the name of the alias. For example if you wanted your alias to be TwitterAccount2 then your email would look like this. Youremail+TwitterAccount2@gmail.com. You can have as many aliases as you want. All aliases will be forward to your main email address which is Youremail@gmail.com.
Just a little trick you can use to open multiple twitter accounts with just one email address.
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Heather
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June 12th, 2009 @6:09 pm
They’re not aliases; Gmail just doesn’t parse anything after the + sign in the account name. It’s also a great way to track spammers and filter your emails.
Ex: A marketing offer or company requests your email address, you give them YourEmail+spam@gmail.com or YourEmail+theirname@gmail.com, and you’ll know exactly who is selling your email address, and be able to boycott them for bad business practices.
You can also use it to filter all spam, just set up a filter to send anything with “+keyword” to trash (keyword of your choice). It’s also useful for filtering good emails from various sources. YourEmail+elist@gmail.com could send all mails from a certain elist to a specified folder.
Gmail also doesn’t parse periods. So if your email account is YourEmail@gmail.com, you can also give out Your.Email@gmail.com, or all the way up to Y.o.u.r.E.m.a.i.l@gmail.com. Another way to filter out unwanted email.
More here: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-ways-to-use-gmail-filters.html
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