Twitter: One Account to Rule Them All, or multiple accounts?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m just getting started with Twitter after resisting for a long time. I have several different things I’m thinking of using it for:
[ul][li]promoting my blog, 50 Books for 50 Bucks[/li][li]personal-life stuff (not sure how much of this I’ll do)[/li][li]acting and voice-over stuff[/li][li]literary pursuits, such as 140-character microshort stories or One Different Letter* entries[/ul][/li]
And there may be others. So here’s my question: Should I set up different Twitter accounts for some or all of these things, or put them all under one umbrella and differentiate them some other way? Am I even officially ALLOWED to have more than one?

*One Different Letter is a game I used to play on LiveJournal. People would suggest a word; I would either remove one letter, add one letter, or change one letter, forming a new word. I would then post the new word, with a definition. For example, zombie might become zoombie (one of those fast-moving brain-munchers like in 28 Days Later). I’m thinking of moving the game to Twitter and tweeting out one ODL word every day, with a Website that lists all the words that have been done so far.

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I started a few months ago with two accounts, personal and job-related – I just announced on the personal account that anyone following it and not the other should move over, because I’m going to let that one die.

It continues to be mostly a work-related account, but that means it’s about 50% work related, 30% miscellaneous links that I find interesting, and 20% personal remarks.

I think you’re better off with a single account; it will be more active and more varied, which is more apt to attract followers. As you get into a regular Twitter routine, you’ll realize that no one you follow is 100% interesting to you all the time.

You can differentiate things with hash tags to enable people to find particular topics or whatever.

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My only piece of advice is that you be aware that if you use the same Twitter account for blog promotion and personal tweets… you’d better only tweet the cheerful stuff.

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Okay, what are hash tags? Complete Twitter newbie here.

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Hash tags are like categories you make up, which begin with a “#” which in most countries is known as the hash.

#helpful

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I have two twitter accounts. One is public, and one is hobby-related, and is under a pseudonym, because I’d prefer for potential employers not to know about it. (Although it is locked anyway.) If you decide to go that route, I recommend the TweetDeck application, which allows you to look at both accounts at the same time, and even send your tweets to both accounts simultaneously, if you so desire.