How to get the Twitter name you always wanted
Posted by Roy Tomeij | Filed under Miscellaneous
Thanks to a post at TheNextWeb.com titled “How to Snap Up that twitter Username You’ve Always Wanted” I managed to have the nice folks at Twitter change my username from “roytomeij” to “roy“.
Maybe it’s because I’m a nerd, but I think it’s quite cool to have your first name as your username. A Twitter user search reveales there are 848 people with “Roy” as either their first or last name, so I’m quite lucky I read the above mentioned post at the right time. I tried to contact the “old Roy” in the past, but he never responded to my messages. The trick is to send an e-mail to username@twitter.com to request a username change. They will verify if the account really is inactive.
We generally have a 9 month rule; if a profile has been inactive for more than 9 months, we release the user name.
After about two days I received mail from Twitter that they changed my username to “roy”. Your followers will automatically follow you using your new name. It’s a good idea to register your old username though, and tweet about your new name there (just in case someone follows some old link).
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