Yesterday I posted a first impressions review of the popular Twitter script Hummingbird. One of the things I didn’t realise when I wrote my review yesterday was just how great HummingBird is for managing multiple Twitter accounts.

As I mentioned yesterday, in addition to my personal Twitter account, I have about 4 other accounts which I use to keep my blog readers updated of the latest posts on my blogs. I don’t check these accounts as much though.

It’s not that I don’t want to use these accounts to interact with readers, it’s just very timeconsuming to monitor so many accounts as you need to sign in, check for @replies, reply to those who tagged you, post an update and then sign out. You then need to do this all again with the other accounts.

Hummingbird makes this whole process incredibly easy. The script is pretty much a basic browser with Twitter functions built in. So unlike other scripts which just access the Twitter API to post updates, Hummingbird lets you use and update Twitter in the same way you would on FireFox, Opera or Internet Explorer.

However, what makes the whole process quicker is the Twitter accounts feature. Once you have added all your accounts to HummingBird you simply need to click on the account you want to use. The script will then automatically sign you out of your current account and sign you into the next one. I know this doesn’t sound like much but it really does speed up the process of checking multiple accounts.

Although I have applications like TweetDeck and Twhirl on my pc and have installed some FireFox Twitter plugins, I use the Twitter home page to post updates and check my @replies about 95% of the time.

Today I have been instead tweeting from the HummingBird client itself and I love it. It’s saving me a lot of time and making my twittering much more productive, something which I am always trying to improve.

The only slight downside is that when you are using HummingBird to mass follow or unfollow, you can’t use it for twittering. So you would have to do your twittering on your regular browser. It’s not really a major problem to be honest though I thought I’d point it out.

Do any readers have multiple Twitter accounts? If so, please leave a comment and let us know how you manage them all

Thanks,
Kevin