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Twitter TweetDeck Teams Bring A New Way To Share A Twitter Accounts

Sharing a Twitter account is not unheard of. Sports teams, political parties etc. share an account all the time. In fact, many celebrities are accused that they share their Twitter accounts with their PR agents. But what this ‘sharing’ is merely the sharing of the password of the account. Naturally, sharing the password is inadvisable and increases vulnerability of the account. But now, Twitter has found a workaround for this problem and have come up with TweetDeck Teams.

Dubbed as Teams, it is a feature that will allow you to share your account with as many people as you wish. Not only that, if you wish to remove some people, you don’t have to go through the hassle of changing the password and informing everyone about the new password.

Here is how the simple but elegant solution will work. If you already have a Twitter account, then login to TweetDeck using those credentials. After logging in, in the navigation bar you can select ‘Accounts’. After selecting the team (which is basically your Twitter account), add the accounts you wish to add into the team. When the person whom you want to add into the team logs into TweetDeck, they will receive a notification where they can confirm or deny whether they wish to get added into the team or not. After a team is formed, anyone can login into TweetDeck with their own account and tweet from the team’s account. In case you wish to remove someone from the team, all you have to do is go to ‘accounts’ tab, view the list of team members and click ‘remove’ against the person of your choice.

Here is another feature under TweetDeck Teams. The members of the team can either be an ‘admin’ or a ‘contributor’. The person who makes the team will have the right to assign (or revoke) the roles of the team members who are by default ‘contributors’. A person who is assigned the role of an admin is allowed to follow/unfollow accounts and add/remove team members. The admin however cannot access the account off of TweetDeck or change the credentials or password.

You can opt out of receiving invitations completely or allowing invitations by only those users whom you follow on twitter.com/settings/security.This is indeed a simple but great feature that Twitter is now offering. Teams has already started rolling out this week to Web users, as well as those running the Chrome plug-in and Windows desktop application.</p>