Change Twitter Name : Should You? I Did!

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I’ve been thinking of doing this for some time…changing the spiderhousepr Twitter account over into my personal account, but I never got round to it until now. You may wonder why I wanted to do this, there are a number of reasons but the main one is that spiderhousepr on Twitter was more me than the business;

You’ll see random tweets about music, charity, technology, food & Belfast – not really relevant to spiderhousepr as a digital marketing agency (sure, there were penalty of relevant tweets too; social medial WordPress, interesting stats etc!). I’m also involved in other projects separate from spiderhousepr & so I felt it was better just to tweet as myself! You can now find me at @cmooki although we still have the spiderhousepr account & may start using it again in 2012.

How To Change Twitter Name & Keep Old Address

Although I wanted to transfer all my ramblings to my own name I also wanted to keep @spiderhousepr for future use and also because google links, business cards etc are all directed to this twitter address.

To change your twitter name & keep the old one you’ll just need another email address (which isn’t registered to Twitter) & it’s also easier if you have 2 browsers to use simultaneously…

1. open 1st browser, login to Twitter & go to settings - here you will see how easy it is to change your username

2. open a 2nd browser & got to setup a new Twitter account (if you use a different browser you will not have to logout of your other account).

3. use this 2nd browser window to find the new username you want - when you have found one that is available (it’s difficult!!) simply enter it into your current Twitter settings (should be open in the 1st browser!).

4. using the 2nd browser quickly re-register your old Twitter name

5. done!

The good news is that, unlike Facebook, Twitter frees up the name immediately – all you have to do is snap it up immediately & then update the profile with relevant information. This way any links pointing to the address will not result in a 404 error & the visitor will have information as to the name change.

 

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