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What are the possible unintended consequences of changing my Username?
What are the possible unintended consequences of changing my Username? Will I lose followers? Will I be able to access everything I need to access? There seems that users on this board are reporting problems. I want to be sure before I do it.
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Inappropriate?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.
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Inappropriate?Early Childhood! Great advice! I'm afraid of losing my following and profile. I've heard of others having a hard time... Thanks for your advice!
I’m Thankful!
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Inappropriate?I would like to change my personal username to a biz name. the problem is this when i typed in my new username it said its taken but when i searched for the name twitter found nothing. Why is this?
I’m confused
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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. The user name you may be trying to use could be new as well. Good luck with finding a new name you like. -
Inappropriate?I changed my username yesterday. Today, it's still set as my old username and all of my @ replies are being directed to my old username, and even though my old username still appears on my twitter page, all of the @ replies won't show up unless they manually type in my new username.... and the only way I can go to my twitter page is by manually typing my new username into the address bar. Just a few minutes ago I changed my username back to my old username and it (worked????!!!?) and then I tried changing it back to my new username again. But it says it's taken...... ??????? Yet it's still screwing up like it has been since yesterday...... I'm getting really frustrated and I wish this problem would be fixed.. now.
I’m frustrated
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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.
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