How to Change Your Twitter Username ID

Hey Rick,
Nice post as I was just thinking about changing mine and wondering how it's done. The trouble is someone already had my name 'samadkins' so I got 'samadkinshom' but I was thinking of 'samadkins1' but is there any point do you think in changingit if i can't grab just my name because noone would be able to search it with an added 1 or underscore?
What do ya fink?
Sam

Very cool, sir! That procedure's scarier than it is difficult. I'm glad you posted, I was curious.

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Sam

I'd grab samanthaadkinds or thesamadkins or even use a business handle like masscontrolkern does and remember - your real name field is different than your username.

I know you are known as "sam" but women seem to get more mileage on Twitter (sorry if you think that's mysoginistic (sp) but it's not.

That's why I mention the samantha - Ed_Dale seems to survive with an underscore - and I managed to get more than 1000 followers with one…

Hope that is helpful,
Rick

Thanks for the advice Rick! Appreciate it

Thanks for the directions. I tried to tell my friends to use their real name, but they are stuck in the old IM mode. At least they can switch after they get the value of twitter.

Joy~

@jeanettejoy

I was only thinking of how to change my twitter name a couple of days ago. This really helps. Many thanks Rick, not just for this post but for being part of my continuing education.

I changed my Twitter name about a month after I started using Twitter. That was the easy part. There were several apps that were connected to Twitter that I had to go in an update my Twitter name in, such as OutTwit, Friendfeed, ping.fm, hellotxt, Facebook, etc.

It was easy, but you have to remember what you've got connected to Twitter, then check to see if you need to update things.

Andrea

Nifty, I hope it's not just some bug they forgot to patch. Good find!

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Thanks for the article…

Note that if you have only one Twitter ID, just click the "settings" link when you are logged in, and in the "account tab"… just start changing your username. Then save. Easy.

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Thanks for this information. I was interested in doing this but too lazy to hunt down the info. I saw your link on Twitter and poof! - information delivered. I'm going to Digg it to make sure that others can find this when they need it too.

It was scary thinking about changing… but I knew it needed to be done… it was actually very easy… unfortunately my name is too long for Twitter, so I still had to chose something that "reflects" me … but I am happy w/the new name…

Thank you Rick for sharing!

_cmw
now @ceocutressa
formally @richgirl1973, but still richgirl1973 at heart!

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yah
turns out it was "really easy" when a GIRL helped ya figure it all out… humph

Yes, Deb, thanks for the support!

All my friends said GO! So I finally ran out of people to call up and try to get to talk me out of it.

I'm using my fancy http://Woopra.com software to see who is on my site - right now I can actually see coach deb is on my site on the "how to change your twitter username id" blog post.

I've tried to IM ya on the on site chat - but it probably scared ya - it would freak me out too!

Thanks everyone for the wonderful words of encouragement.

Rick

hmmm…uh…er…."scared" wasn't the description iiiii'd use… but - uh… ok - let's call it scared when i saw an IM woooooopra pop up while I was typin up my comment

all i know - is I'm glad YOU made the _ change - BRAVA!

i can't tell u the heat i get from others who resist this change… but slowly… I'm seeing them breakdown and get their name sans underscore.

so this is good.

I think my new policy will be - no free advice / coaching. I'll just nod & say - niiiiiice.

funny how you're not appreciated when you offer freely eh?

@ceocutressa
formally @richgirl1973

NOTE: If you've been using @richgirl1973 for any length of time, establishing a brand and links from that twitter ID - you'll want to create a separate Twitter account (with different email address) and Grab @richgirl1973 back before anyone ELSE does!

Currently, there are people who've talked to you and if you click on their links to you - it shows up as that person doesn't exist.

Instead - grab the @richgirl1973 and have your 1st and last tweet say: Please follow me at @CEOcutressa my NEW TwitID

@CoachDeb

PS: oh crud!
just when i said NO to giving any more free coaching.
ok then - feel free to deposit $397 into my paypal account and we'll call it even.

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Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog. I am subscribing to your feed so I don\'t miss the next post!

Thanks Rick, very helpful.

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Hey–thanks–someone just asked me how to do this the other day and I didn't know.

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Seriously, it was really *that* hard to figure this out on your own? You need step-by-step instructions to swap two Twitter accounts?

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Very interesting technique indeed. A life saver for those who created their twitter ids in hurry and later realized it.

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