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20 May 2011 by Karen Haller
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20 May 2011 by Tamsin Fox-Davies
This is a great description of how to swap over a twitter name. It took me quite a while to figure it out, so having a step by step explanation like this is perfect!
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21 May 2011 by Alicia
Thanks Tam and Karen. I also considered it for a long time so I hope this guide is useful to others
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21 May 2011 by Felicity Lerouge
This is really useful as I have two accounts – one personal and one for Phenomenal Women but it was proving too much of a bind to tweet twice, so I was considering how to amalgamate the two. Now I can use the tips here to tell my fans I’m using one address. Thank you.
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27 May 2011 by Alicia
Hi Felicity
That’s great to hear. If you need some extra help just let me know
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24 February 2012 by Karen James Cody
Brilliant! You’ve saved me hours with this simple, easy-to-follow video and explanation.
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12 October 2012 by Todd Thomas
I’m guessing that this strategy isn’t against twitter’s TOS in any way?
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30 December 2012 by Joseph Janulewicz
Great video! Thanks for the help and good luck with everything
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24 April 2013 by Andrea Duncan
Thank you Alicia. Very helpful indeed and so clearly presented. I can only agree with the other people- it would have been nice to see your face
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17 June 2013 by Emmie
Thanks so much for this – it was really helpful!
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12 July 2013 by Drew Manderfeld
I would swap steps 2 and 3 in case anyone tries to take your old name before you create the 2nd account.
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17 July 2013 by David Rough
This was really helpful. The process seemed daunting but you simplified the whole thing and sounds so much better than my own name! Many thanks, David.
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17 October 2013 by Bob Grupp
Thanks for posting. This was very efficient and helpful.
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4 January 2014 by Andre Veloux
Thanks Alicia Cowan!!!
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15 January 2014 by Catherine McCurdy
Great video! Simple steps… thanks
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16 February 2014 by Stephanie the Powers
I have a name on my personal account that I’ve been wanting to use as my blog’s Twitter handle for a while since it matches all my other blog social media like pinterest, Instagram, etc. I wanted to try switching them, but I was so scared that I would just end up losing the name. Thanks for confirming that the name is released immediately! I’m also going to use your tips about registering my current blog Twitter at a new account so I don’t lose followers.
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14 March 2014 by Jen Tilly
Really helpful and easy to follow video – worked perfectly first time. Thank you.
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17 March 2014 by Arelthia
I have wanted to change my Twitter Name for a while but did not want to use the followers I have. Now it is done. Thanks for such a great post.
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28 June 2014 by Tegan
I just used these instructions to change my twitter account name, and they worked beautifully. I changed the email address on the keeper first, to the one I mostly use, and that freed up the old email address to use on the re-initiated old twitter name account. Nice! I’m very grateful to you for giving me the confidence to forge ahead with this.
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19 July 2014 by Paul K
Thank you! Really useful. Just in the process of moving from one company to another. I have two twitter profiles, a professional one and a personal one, and I was wondering how I could avoid having to close the professional one down – which is clearly linked to the present company – and losing c. 300 followers. You’ve shown me the way!
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23 September 2014 by Luci - MumsMakeLists.com
Hi there, thanks so much for this, I hadn’t realised you could change the actual @… bit before now. Finding your post came at the perfect time for updating my twitter name.
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9 December 2014 by Kevan Blackadder
Another happy customer. Both the blog and video were so useful when I wanted to change Twitter name
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9 February 2015 by Saira Hamilton
Thanks so much for this Alicia – really useful and simple to follow. It’s all done: I am now officially in the Twittersphere!!
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9 March 2015 by Debrah Woods AKA Tess
My twitter name is my personal name, but all the information is linked to my business. Like email and web address, however I had a website audit done and it doesn’t show that I have a twitter account. For SEO purposes, how do I make the twitter account show for my business? I tried several new names and there is nothing I can use that would make sense. Also does changing your name even fix with this issue.
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29 April 2015 by Uvah'Lavarah Apovea
Thanks for the insight. I have a personal blog which I want to link to my twitter account and I didn’t like the idea of creating a separate account. But going through your website has given me the idea to just change my name which matches my personal blog.
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2 May 2015 by maggie
Hei Alicia, thanks so much for the tutorial. It’s really useful.
I can’t help but wonder though, what would happen to my tweets that people RTed or favorited? I mean, would it still be RTed and facorited by those people? And what about the mentions?
Thabks again for your tutorial. -
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23 June 2015 by Vanessa Park
Thank you so VERY much.
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25 August 2015 by Sandy Lashin-Curewitz
Thank you for “Changing your Twitter name without losing followers”! I had been reluctant to do this for some time. Your video was quick and easy. Now I’ll be a loyal a follower!
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I’m sure this happens to lots of people where they pick a name and then realise they could be using a more business savvy twitter name.
This is a great step by step guide.