How to Create a New Twitter Account with the Same Email

Trying to create a new Twitter account with an email address that's already in use can feel like hitting a digital brick wall. The platform tells you the email is taken, and it seems you're stuck. But what if you wanted to start fresh, create a new brand profile, or separate your personal and professional life without juggling brand new email inboxes? You're in the right place. This guide will walk you through several surprisingly simple methods to create a new X account using the exact same email address.

Why Start a New X Account with the Same Email?

Before we get into the "how," let's quickly cover the "why." People's motivations for wanting a fresh start on X while keeping their primary email are incredibly common. You might find yourself in one of these situations:

• A Full Rebrand: The account you made a decade ago doesn't reflect your current brand, business, or personal interests. You want a clean slate - a new handle, a new bio, and new content - without surrendering your professional email address.
• Separating Personal and Professional: You use your trusty Gmail for everything, but you want a dedicated X account for your business or creative project. This allows you to build a professional presence without mixing it with your personal tweets and follows.
• Escaping a Messy Past: Maybe your old account is cluttered with outdated opinions, inactive followers, or a timeline you no longer engage with. Deactivating and starting over can be liberating, and reusing your email keeps things simple.
• Just a Fresh Start: Sometimes, you just want to reboot. A new account lets you carefully curate your follows and cultivate a different kind of timeline from scratch.

Whatever your reason, the core issue remains: X’s system is designed for one account per email address. Fortunately, a few clever workarounds can bypass this restriction entirely.

The Easiest Method: The Gmail "Dot Trick"

If you use Gmail, this first method is by far the simplest and most effective. It feels like a secret hack, but it's based on a feature built right into Gmail's architecture.

Here's the concept: Gmail doesn’t recognize periods (dots) in email addresses.

This means that emails sent to yourname@gmail.com, your.name@gmail.com, and y.o.u.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com will all land in the exact same inbox. They are, to Gmail, identical.

However, most other online services - including X - do see these as completely unique email addresses. This is the loophole we can use.

Step-by-Step Guide to the Gmail Dot Trick

1. Create Your Email Alias: Take your current Gmail address and add a dot anywhere in the username (the part before the "@" symbol).
   • Original Email: johnsmith@gmail.com
   • New Alias 1: john.smith@gmail.com
   • New Alias 2: j.ohnsmith@gmail.com
   You can add the dot anywhere. The important part is that this version isn't already associated with your existing X account.
2. Go to the X Sign-Up Page: Open a new browser window (ideally in Incognito or Private mode to avoid conflicts with your logged-in account) and navigate to the X sign-up page.
3. Use Your New Email Alias to Sign Up: Fill out the sign-up form - your name, phone number or date of birth - but when it asks for your email, enter the new "dotted" version you just created (e.g., john.smith@gmail.com).
4. Complete the Sign-Up Process: Follow the on-screen prompts to choose a password and create your new profile.
5. Verify Your Account: X will send a verification email to confirm you own the address. Even though you signed up with john.smith@gmail.com, this email will arrive in your regular johnsmith@gmail.com inbox. Open the email and click the confirmation link.

That's it! You now have a brand new X account linked to a different email alias, but all correspondence for it will go to your primary Gmail inbox. You can repeat this trick multiple times with different dot placements to create several accounts all connected to a single Gmail inbox.

Alternative Method: The "Plus Alias" Trick

This technique is similar to the dot trick but even more versatile. Many email providers, including Gmail, Outlook, and iCloud, allow you to create email aliases using a plus (+) sign.

Here’s how it works: you can add a "+" followed by any word or number combination after your username, and the email will still be delivered to your primary inbox.

For example, if your email is janedoe@gmail.com, you can create aliases like:

• janedoe+twitter@gmail.com
• janedoe+work@gmail.com
• janedoe+Newsletter2024@gmail.com

All emails sent to these addresses will land in the primary janedoe@gmail.com inbox. Just like with the dot trick, X sees these aliases as completely distinct email addresses.

Step-by-Step Guide to the Plus Alias Trick

1. Choose Your Alias: Decide on a keyword to add after a plus sign. It's helpful to choose something memorable, like the purpose of the new account.
   • Original Email: yourbrand@gmail.com
   • New Alias: yourbrand+xtwo@gmail.com or yourbrand+personal@gmail.com
2. Head to the X Sign-Up Page: Go to the X sign-up page as you did before.
3. Sign Up with the Plus Alias: Enter your new alias (e.g., yourbrand+xtwo@gmail.com) in the email field and complete the registration process.
4. Check Your Inbox and Verify: The verification email will arrive in your main inbox. Click the link to activate your new account.

The beauty of the plus alias is organization. When you receive emails from X for this new account, you can quickly see which alias it was sent to, making it easy to set up filters in your inbox to automatically sort emails from different accounts.

What If I'm Not on Gmail or Outlook? The Universal Method

A major drawback of the dot and plus tricks is that they're provider-dependent. If you use a host that doesn't support them (like Yahoo Mail), you'll need another strategy. This method, which we’ll call the “email shuffle,” is universally effective but requires a few more steps.

The goal here is simple: detach your desired email from your old account, freeing it up to be used for your new account.

Step-by-Step Guide to the Email Shuffle

1. Create a Temporary "Burner" Email: First, you need a placeholder email. Go to a free provider like Gmail or Proton Mail and create a brand new email account. You will likely never use this again except for this process, so the name doesn't matter (e.g., TempForTwitter987@gmail.com).
2. Change the Email on Your Old X Account: Log into the X account you want to move away from.
   • Go to "Settings and privacy."
   • Select "Your account" and then "Account information."
   • Click on "Email address" and change it from your primary email to the new temporary email you just created.
   • You will need to confirm this change by clicking a link sent to that temporary email address.
3. Confirm Your Main Email Is Now Free: Once the email on your old account has been officially changed, your primary email address is no longer associated with any X account. It is now available to be used for a new registration.
4. Create Your New X Account: Log out of your old account. Go back to the X sign-up page and create your brand new account, this time using your original, prized email address. Since it's no longer in use, the registration will proceed without any issues.

While this method involves more manual work, its major advantage is that it works with any email provider and leaves no ambiguity. Your old account exists on one email, and your new account exists on another.

Best Practices for Managing Multiple X Accounts

Creating your new accounts is only half the battle. Now comes the challenge of managing them without getting overwhelmed.

• Define a Clear Purpose for Each Account: Is one for business and one for personal hobbies? Is one for networking and the other for a niche community? Knowing the "why" behind each profile helps you stay focused and build a consistent voice where it matters.
• Use X's In-App Account Switching: Both the X mobile app and website have a built-in feature to add multiple accounts and switch between them easily. This saves you from having to log in and out constantly.
• Be Mindful of Your Voice and Content: If you're building a professional brand on one account, make sure that content stays there. Mixing personal chat with business announcements can confuse your audience.
• Manage Notifications Carefully: Having notifications for multiple accounts on your phone can quickly become distracting. Use your phone's settings to customize alerts for each account or turn non-essential ones off entirely.

Final Thoughts

In short, creating a new X account with an email you're already using is completely doable. By leveraging simple but powerful workarounds like the Gmail dot trick, plus aliases, or the more traditional email shuffle, you can easily set up a fresh profile without needing to create and manage an entirely new email inbox.

Of course, managing the content across those multiple handles is its own challenge. Instead of constantly switching between profiles to schedule posts, reply to comments, and check analytics, we built Postbase to centralize it all. It allows you to plan, schedule, and publish video and photo content across all your X accounts (and other social platforms) from one beautiful calendar. You can also handle all your comments and DMs in one unified inbox, giving you back the time you’d otherwise spend logging in and out of different profiles.