Twitter
has introduced TweetDeck Teams for its app on web, Chrome and Windows.
This will allow users to share one Twitter account with their team
members without giving away the password to all.
According
to a blog post by Twitter, to use this feature you need to log into
TweetDeck with your Twitter account instead of the earlier legacy
TweetDeck account, which had a log-in via an email id and password. To
know more about how to get rid of the 2013-style log-in read more here.
With
the introduction of TweetDeck teams, once you log into an account, all
you need to do is go to account and type the name of a user who you want
to give shared access to for an account. For instance, if you run a
website and you want all your team members to handle the account for
that site, just type in their account name and select authorise.
One
you do that “an email will be sent to the account,” that you’ve chosen
and they will need to accept the invitation to get access. Once they do,
you too will receive confirmation on your related email account that
your team member has been added a contributing partner.
According
to Twitter, “If you’re currently sharing your account, you can change
the password and revoke app access to ensure that from now on only the
people you’ve just added will have access.”
The
person (the owner of the account) who knows the password can add or
remove team members, view the team and access the account from
non-TweetDeck platforms (e.g., Twitter.com, Twitter mobile apps). The
owner can change passwords, credentials, etc. Other than the owner,
roles on TweetDeck teams will be divided into admins and contributors.
Where
admins are concerned, they can sign into TweetDeck with their personal
account and then tweet from the official account account (plus build
lists, follow or unfollow accounts, send Tweets and schedule Tweets),
add or remove team members and view the team. An admin however cannot
access the account outside TweetDeck or change the credentials or
password. Contributors can tweet from the account but cannot view, add
or remove team members, and can not access the account outside of
TweetDeck.
For those who don’t want to receive invitations to others’ teams, they can opt out completely on twitter.com/settings/security.
The
good thing about this is that if you have many team members accessing
the account you can ensure that not everyone has the password. If
someone leaves the team, you don’t have to keep changing the password
each time and it also makes account security slightly more reassuring.
However Twitter also cautions that you must continue to “use login
verification on your accounts” and encourage team members to do that
same, since control over a password doesn’t mean complete security on
the Internet.
Posted by : Gizmeon
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