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It can take twitter up to five days to process user name changes and have them show up in a search. – Early Childhood, on November 05, 2009 14:07

It can take twitter up to five days to process user name changes and have them show up in a search. The user name you may be trying to use could be new as well. Good luck with finding a new name you like. – Early Childhood, on November 05, 2009 14:04

I changed my twitter name shortly after I got started and it actually worked better for me. My original twitter name did not reveal what my tweets were all about well enough and missed the target audience. My advice is to keep the original if you are well established - start a new one and encourage followers to transfer over. Once the new one has a good following or your key followers are in place, then you are all set to go. When you change your name, it takes awhile for searches to find it in twitter as well as other searches. It won't even show up at first.

Good luck with your decision.

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