The problem with username on Twitter: Twitter has become an important platform for businesses as well as individuals. You can use it for both your personal reasons as well as set up your business profile on Twitter. It has been estimated that Twitter is very close to Facebook in its number of users and the number is still growing exponentially. People at times prefer ‘tweeting’ more than any other form of social media activity since it requires one to write within 140 characters on Twitter. You can also understand it clearly who are following you and who aren’t and decide whom to keep in your profile. However, there is often one issue that we have seen people, especially the youngsters to come up with, i.e. their Twitter usernames. People when not in a professional life, or are still studying prefer to keep names that they believe to be ‘cool’, for example, ‘cutegem’ or ‘cooldude_01’. However cute or cool these names may sound and prove to be as they impress others, problems crop up when the owners of these profiles enter in their respective professional lives and want things to be more serious and sober. It is then that they find that their Twitter usernames are not right and want to have them changed. However, there is one thing that we all fear, the loss of followers on this platform. Who will tolerate the loss of what it took months to have?

What you can do: Now it isn’t that true. Of course you will have a risk of some followers getting confused and not following you. But there are certain ways in which are way smarter and are going to prevent the loss of followers from your profile. Among these one is that you change your username and be sure that people who are keen to follow you will look for your details on the Twitter platform and then find you. You can sign in to your account and then select the upper right icon on the page and from the list select ‘settings’. You can then create a new username and check its availability. If you get the green signal, simply save it. After this, you will be required to re-enter your password and the change will be made. However, there is always a slight chance of losing followers. In case you are not willing to part with a single follower, you can create a new account altogether.

The best way: Just go to Twitter and create a new account in the same manner as you did for your already existing account. But the smartest way is two combine both the processes. You can create a new account and then have all the followers transferred to it. However, this isn’t possible but you can name your new account with your old username and before that change the name of the previous account. You can also inform people of the change and ask them to tweet on this.