With 390 million active users, Twitter is one of the top three social media now. Nearly every celebrity, businessmen, politicians, and creators have an account on Twitter. If you are one of these and don't yet created a Twitter account, then this blog post is going to help you do it. Twitter allows different ways of creating account on its platform, you can sign up through phone number, email, Apple login, or Gmail login. For the sake of this article, we are going to create a Twitter account using Gmail.
Gmail is a free mailing service by Google, and it facilitates OAuth Single Sign-in interface to all developers so that any user can log in to their app using Gmail ID. This way you don't have to go through email verification, and it save you from the problem of remembering passwords of different platforms.
Twitter also provides signup using Gmail login. It is easy and fastest way to create your Twitter account within minutes. To get started, you need to follow the below steps properly:
Steps to Create Twitter account using Gmail
- Open any browser and go to twitter.com
- On the homepage, you will see three signup option in the right sidebar including Signup with Google, Apple and Email.
- This article is about creating account with Gmail Login so choose the first option "Sign up with Google".
- Now a new window will open asking you to enter your email id and password of your Gmail account.
- Enter your email and correct password and hit next button. Now, Google may ask you to allow permission to Twitter for seeing your public user information.
- Once you authorize Twitter, the window will auto close, and you are back to Twitter website to complete other sign up steps.
- For any new account, Twitter has a sign-up flow where you have to select your username, follow a minimum of 5 people and some topics to complete signup.
- Once you complete all the signup steps, you are in. Now you can change your profile pic and cover picture, add bio, add other social media links to make your Twitter profile look good.
As you can see, it's pretty easy process, and you can create a Twitter account within minutes. The best thing is, you don't have to verify your email or setup password in this method. Next time, when you want to log in again to your Twitter account, you just have to use your Gmail ID and password for that.
How to create Twitter Account using Gmail in Android ?
Just like we created Twitter account using Gmail in web version, we can also create Twitter account in Android using Gmail. Creating a Twitter account in Android is easier than web version because you don't have to enter your Gmail credentials manually. Twitter will grab the Google account that you have used to signup for Google services in your Android phone, and you can sign up on Twitter with that.
For creating Twitter account in Android, you can either download Twitter app or use the web version of Twitter in your mobile browsers. If you plan to use Twitter in mobile browser, then the process of creating account is exactly similar to above-mentioned steps. But, if you are using Twitter android app, then you can follow the steps here to create an account:
Steps to Create Twitter Account using Gmail in Android
- Open Twitter App if already installed, or download and install Twitter app from Playstore.
- Once you open the app, you will see the same three signup options as web version that is Signup with Google, Apple, or Email.
- Choose Signup with Google, Twitter will now show all the Gmail account that you have added in your Android phone. Decide the one you like to use.
- Twitter will not ask for your password in this case because the Google account is already authorized with your android device.
- Now you just to have to complete the signup flow of Twitter which include selecting username, adding bio, profile picture, following some accounts and topics etc.
- Once you have done it all, you are in the Twitter feed section. You can always customize your profile later by tapping on your profile picture in Twitter app.
Benefits of Creating a Twitter account with Gmail
There are certain benefits of creating a Twitter account with Gmail over signing up with email and password. Some benefits are mentioned below:
- Shorten the signup flow by removing the email verification step
- More secure than email/password login, which is prone to keyloggers and phishing attacks.
- No need to remember password for Twitter account.
- Auto sign-in feature on trusted devices.
- Easy recovery in case of locked account.
Drawbacks of Creating Twitter account with Gmail
Although there are no major drawbacks of creating Twitter account with Gmail yet if you lost access to your Gmail account you lose access to your Twitter account as well. This will only happen if you have logged out your Twitter and trying to sign in with the same Gmail ID you don't have access to.