How-to Twitter Name Change
This is a follow up from my last post, “What’s in a name…” – Quick re-cap, EVERYTHING! I’ve been using twitter.com using the name @big_b_rad for a while now, but I’ve grown tired of trying to explain how to spell it, where to put the underscores etc. so I set out to change my name, and did so in the exact way that no one should ever attempt to do such. I pray that my pain in learning will equip you in what NOT to ever attempt!
Step One
If you are going to change your name, don’t register the new account using a different email address. This was my first main mistake thinking that I’d have my 3800 followers happly jump ship with me! There’s a handy dandy little tool in your settings panel of twitter that allows you to check to see if a name is available – if it is, then you can change it and leave ALL of your followers in tact, along with all of your @reply’s, DM’s and Favorites… What I did was the first stupid step in 48 hours of true pain.
Step Two
Never tell your followers that they should follow your new account, and then un-follow your old one… Man, What the Heck was I thinking on that one!
Step Three
Beg forgiveness – and move on…
After some long hard thinking and frustration of hitting the Twitter limit and being dark on twitter for nearly 48 hours… (which sucked BTW) I decided to delete the @bradparler account on twitter – and change the old (@big_b_rad) account to @brad_parler until I can grab up @bradparler. If you are going to change your account – do so in the settings panel of twitter – and then go back and grab up the old one to point to the new one… I discovered that someone could have registered @big_b_rad only hours after my change… So “I” got it and pointed it to the new account.
