As Nick said this does not sound like a good reason to create multiple accounts. Though Twitter currently has no official policy on this type of usage, it is expected that you will create as few accounts as possible for your application. Since all of the ad updates will be coming from the same site, it is advisable for you to create a single account, and use things like hashtags or keywords to help your followers find which updates are relevant to them.
Also, I don't know what type of ads you will be tweeting, but apps blasting users with spam-like updates (e.g. "We've got a new deal for you guys: http://mysite.com/deals) will be reported to @spam and suspended. So please, make sure any updates coming from your application are relevant, useful, and definitively not spam. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Nick Arnett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto < > [email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Now the question: Is there a way to create different kinds of posts >> for a single user (the site's bot) that can be followed individually? >> Or must I create more than two thousand users? >> >> If this use is against any Twitter policy please excuse me as I have >> no experience with it. > > > I think you'll find that Twitter has said repeatedly that this is not an > appropriate reason to create lots of accounts, though they'll make > exceptions if there's a very good reason. > > Seems to me that you might be able to accomplish your goal with hash tags, > but that means that the "followers" would not follow them in the usual way, > but would subscribe to a service that filtered by hash tag. > > If hash tags are going to survive and prosper, it seems that clients would > do well to allow them to serve as filters (only show me tweets from user X > with tags [a, b, c] or never show me tweets from user X with tags [a, b, > d]). That sort of thing. > > Nick >
