Publish to multiple accounts

[IgorPoitras]

Hi.

I’m a newbie with the twitter API and I’m wondering what would be the best approach to resolve the following scenario:

My client is a governmental entity that will soon go through an election process. They need to publish the results as they arrive to multiple twitter accounts, given that each account will serve to a certain audience. I’ve created a Twitter app, and I’ve tested that I can publish content from my Java app to my twitter account. That is, let’s say, the simple case. Is it possible to make my app point to multiple accounts? I know that twitter forbids the use of multiple accounts to publish the same content (Automation and the use of multiple accounts)
but even though the content my client will automatically publish might look similar, it is not:

For example: @electionResults_AK will serve to people that live in Arkansas, and it will not tweet the same content that @electionResults_Fl will. Both will say “Election results 2019” but one will point to our Arkansas election results page, and the other to the Florida election results page.

Thanks a lot!

[andypiper]

Posting the same content across multiple account is not allowed, as you’ve correct identified. This is to reduce spam, and encourage healthy and positive interactions on the platform.

An application can, absolutely, post on behalf of / for multiple user accounts. In these cases, you create an app, and then have each of the target accounts go through the sign-in with Twitter / three-legged OAuth flow to retrieve account secret keys for each of them. You store these, and use them when you’re posting via the API.