Tweet from separate account

[aidancoomi]

I just recently signed up for a twitter developer account for automating tweets, but the account I signed up for twitter developer is different from the account I am planning to automate with. Will this work or will I need to sign up for a developer account for that account too?

I’m a student and new to Twitter Development. Thanks in advanced!

[IgorBrigadir]

Yes, you only need 1 developer account and you can always authorize different ones, see here:

Multiple bot accounts

A Developer account is just a twitter account that can use developer.twitter.com to create apps etc. For convenience, when you create keys for an app on https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps it uses your account, ianskenny to create access tokens. When you authenticate calls, it has 2 parts: the consumer key & secret (that belongs to the app), and access token & secret (which belong to the twitter user) - To authenticate a new twitter user that’s not you, like a bot account, you can use https:/…