Thank you for this information. I had an old Twitter account that isn’t associated with my current website and blog and needed to figure out how to delete it but have followers come to new site. This information was very easy to understand even for a untechie person like myself.

Good question, Paul. By “Lock down,” we mean that you should make sure that your old accounts remain inactive once you move activity to your main account. If you’re the only who has access to your account, this is easy to manage. If others have access to the account’s login information or regularly tweet from the account, notify them that the account is no longer being used. As an extra precaution, change the account password so you are the only one who can access it. I hope this helps, and good luck with the transition!

I’m sort of going through that. I actually had multiple websites, and I decided to merge them all into one. The only issue is that they each had twitter accounts, youtube accounts, and Facebook pages. It’s a pain to manage them all, I wish I could simply merge them. I’m trying with Facebook at least, but I am nearly 100% certain they will turn down my request.

Thanks for the cool tips on how to handle twitter! Take care!

Thanks for these tips.
I have two separate Twitter accounts, one was used for business and the other personal. I have been wanting to merge them, but had no acceptable options.
My issue now is that the account I wish to phase out has some long time, and very important contacts for my future career as Followers.
So I’m Still left with no real way to merge without risking the loss of some very important contacts as Followers.

I’m going to test the response rate I get using your methods. But a lot of these contacts/Followers are from a career I had many years ago that I am reentering. So at worst, if the response rate isn’t high enough, I may have to keep the account I wanted to phase out, and phase out the new.account which has a much better user name.
That would be a shame, but retention of the most high value followers is paramount.

In retrospect, I wish I had never created that original account with a user name that has nothing to do with me personally. I think it’s a mistake I’ve seen many people make.

I have one account that is stuck in a glitch, over 70,000 followers, so I had opened another account about a year ago just in case, and would like to merge the glitched account to the new fully functioning account. What I don’t want to happen is that the glitch migrate to my functioning account.