Comments on: How To Change Your Twitter Name Without Losing Followers

By: How to change your Twitter Name… « Tech Tips Blog

How to change your Twitter Name… « Tech Tips Blog — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:48:47 +0000

[...] How to change your Twitter Name… How to change your Twitter Name without losing all of your followers [...]

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:13:09 +0000

Thanks. I am planning a change of my Twitter name and this information has come in handy :)

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:49:22 +0000

Thanks for this. It really helped me make the transition smooth for my accounts.

By: Diane Agussol

Diane Agussol — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:18:31 +0000

Thanks for the information Jon, was extremely helpful.

By: Jon Bishop

Jon Bishop — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:12:49 +0000

First I would check http://twitter.com/account/connections to be sure they weren’t connected via OAuth first. Then I would contact Twitter and let them know about the abuse.

Changing your Twitter name should be a last resort. In theory, it should work because the API calls would no longer be associated with your username. But once again, I would try and contact Twitter first and post your problem here http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/what_to_do-jio8

By: Kenny

Kenny — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:22:18 +0000

Thanks for this. Question for you. I have been caught with a 3rd party application that is acting like a virus. It is a mafia mob game like thing that continues to try to send out DMs from my account even though I have revoke access. I had to change the password. The problem is that it continues to try to log in, and I am always locked out.

If I change my username as you suggested, is that tantamount to having a new account free–and thus free me from this mess?

Thanks
Kenny

By: 4 Lessons on Changing Your Twitter Name « Custom-built Brands

4 Lessons on Changing Your Twitter Name « Custom-built Brands — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:45:03 +0000

[...] Jon Bishop explains how he changed his Twitter name without losing followers: http://www.jonbishop.com/2009/01/how-to-change-your-twitter-name/ [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:30:23 +0000

Thanks, Jon! Very helpful stuff.

By: Changing your Twitter name? Watch out! « Pixels from the Edge

Changing your Twitter name? Watch out! « Pixels from the Edge — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:13:54 +0000

[...] it at the time!) but if you have a big following you may want to take this step.Â As explained on this link after you change your name open a second account with your old name and place a simple tweet [...]

By: David

David — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:43:17 +0000

Thanks for this. I have been thinking of going the other way with a twitter name change–from my real name to the name of my food blog. What is the rationale for going the real name route?

By: Don Miller

Don Miller — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:32:32 +0000

Thanks for the practical advice, I had been wondering how to do this!

By: Jack Leblond

Jack Leblond — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:47:16 +0000

Good info – I did the same thing, signed up with a generic nick-name then had to go back and change it. Thankfully my desired name was still available.

By: Derek Edmond

Derek Edmond — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:59:20 +0000

Definitely a smart idea – thank you for sharing. One warning: I’ve been using TweetDeck and when I made the switch, I had to logout/log back in. When I did that, the new profile name did not carry over my TweetDeck settings, so I needed to re-classify my groups.

By: Carrie2

Carrie2 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:01:48 +0000

Adding this to my bookmarks. Thank You

By: elayne_crain (Elayne Crain)

elayne_crain (Elayne Crain) — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:59:59 +0000

@tracymueller http://tinyurl.com/8ggc3h might help! Good luck, peach!