ICloud – how to move contacts en mass from one iCloud account to another

It is possible to assign multiple twitter ids to a contact. You have 2 ways of achieving this. Through iOS or through the Address Book app on Mac OS.

On iOS 5 you can add multiple Twitter accounts to a contact on the device like this:

• Chose a contact
• Edit
• Add field ...
• Select Twitter
• Enter the twitter account

When you already have a Twitter account field you can't add another one like this anymore. Instead you will have to do as follow:

• Under the Twitter field you will see an empty field for Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace or Flickr
• select this empty field's name and chose Twitter
• Enter the additional Twitter account

You can repeat this procedure for additional accounts.

This doesn't seem very intuitive at first, but it looks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace and Flickr are simply subcategories for a dedicated "social network" field and are managed just like other multiple entries fields on the device:

• email -> work, home...
• url -> home page, home, work, other...
• date -> anniversary, other

On Mac OS using the Address Book Application. Select the contact you want to edit, edit it.

• To to the menu Card -> Add Field -> Twitter ...
• And add the twitter account.

Repeat as many times as needed.

Your contacts will sync shortly afterward.

Exporting your contacts from an iPhone is very easy: all data about the contact, from name, phone number, picture, email, URL, etc, can be exported as an inclusive vCard bundle from iCloud (or without for example with this app) and sent to someone else by email or text message. (While we’ll focus on sending contacts between iPhones, these vCards are also usable by other iOS devices, Macs, Windows, Windows Phone, Android, and even Blackberry phones, because the exported VCF format is pretty much universally accepted across all platforms as an address book standard.)

You’ll probably want to backup and sync the new iPhone beforehand just in case something goes haywire importing the vCard, however unlikely that is.

• log into te iCloud accound from your old iPhone and select all your contacts on the settings button (bottom left). It says Export vCard. Click this and you can Export all your contact information as a vCard .vcf file
• create an email with the vCard attachment and send it to yourself (or rather, the email on the other iPhone)
• On the other phone you can import the vCard: Open the email containing the contacts on the iPhone and tap on the vCard.vcf file attachment

• Tap on “Add All # Contacts” to import the address book to the iPhone

Notice the add option tells you how many contacts are stored within the vCard, making it easy to determine if all intended contact information is included. You can also manually select individual contacts from the list if you only wish to import one or two, but for the purpose here we’ll transfer them all over.