Outsourcing your Twitter content and advertising
If you want someone else to manage your business's Twitter content and ads, you’ll need to give them to your Twitter account.
Twitter has a multi-user login option which allows multiple people to access your account. It’s a secure way to manage your Twitter account as you choose the levels of permission you grant and never have share your password.
In this article, we’ll cover how you can give access to someone else to manage your Twitter account and Twitter ad account.
Why do you need to give access to Twitter?
If you have employees, an agency, or freelancers who work on your Twitter content, they’ll need access to your account.
Whether it’s to post content, share ads, or look at the analytics for your content, they’ll need access!
How to give access to a Twitter account
To give access to your Twitter account (not your ad account), you’ll need to use TweetDeck.
Follow these steps to set up TweetDeck and give someone access to your Twitter account, so they can schedule and post content and reply to DMs:
Before you use TweetDeck, you need to check it’s enabled in your Twitter account:
1. Login to your Twitter account
2. Click on More
3. Click on Settings and privacy
3. Click Your account
4. Click on TweetDeck Teams on the right-hand side
5. Make sure TweetDeck Teams is turned on:
Next:
1. Login to TweetDeck using your Twitter account credentials
2. Click on Accounts (icon with 2 people)
3. Click Manage team
4. Write the Twitter handle for the team member you want to add starting with the @ symbol in the Add team member box
5. Choose access level Contributor (access to post Tweets, Access direct messages, Like and Retweet) or Admin (can manage team + all contributor permissions)
6. Click Authorize
5. Click Change role to change the role of the team member from Contributor to Admin
The team member you invited will receive an email like this:
They need to login to their Twitter account and voila, they have access!
Once they have access, you will receive a message that looks like this:
How to remove a team member's permissions on Twitter?
You can remove a partner at any time in the Manage team section by clicking Change role then Remove from team:
How to request access to a Twitter account
If you need to gain access to a client’s Twitter account, you’ll need to ask them to give you access using the above steps.
Give them your Twitter handle and ask them to add you using TweetDeck Teams.
Access levels for a Twitter Ads account
If an agency, freelancer or team member manages your Twitter ads, you’ll need to give them access to your Twitter ads account.
The process is different to granting access to post content and manage your Twitter account.
If you’re the account administrator, there are 5 levels of permission you can give to people who need access your Twitter ads:
How to give access to a Twitter Ads account
1. Login to your Twitter Ads account
2. Click on the name of your account and select Edit access to account in the drop down box:
3. Click Add access
4. Enter the Twitter @username for the person you want to add
5. Select permission level you want to give
6. Click Save changes
How do you edit the permissions for a current ad account user?
In step 3 of this process, click Edit access
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