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How do I change my user name?
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<h2>What's the difference between your real name and your user name?</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Your user name</strong> is like a screen name; it's how people will
come to know you on Twitter. It appears in your profile URL and is
unique to you. User names are used for login, <a href="http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10711/entries/14023">@replies</a>, <a href="http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10711/entries/14606">direct messaging</a>,
and more. Your user name appears alongside your profile image in
friends' timelines each time you update, and we also include it in all
outgoing text messages. <br /> </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Your
real name</strong> is your full name, displayed in the sidebar
of your profile page and used to identify you to friends. This can be
helpful if your user name is something mysterious, such as @ic0n, or @meangrape. Some people choose to put something other than a name in that field.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><img src="/attachments/117324" border="0" alt="Twitter___candice-5.jpg" /></p>
<h2>How do I change my real or user name?</h2>
<p>Changing your name(s) is easy! Visit your Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/account/settings">account settings</a> to change both your real and user name.</p>
<p>1. <strong>Log in</strong> to Twitter<br /> 2. In the upper right hand navigation bar, click <strong>Settings</strong><br /> 3. Change the name in the <strong>real name</strong> or <strong>user name</strong> field<br /> 4.<strong> Save</strong> your changes</p>
<p>Changing your user name will not affect your exsiting followers,
direct messages, or @replies. They will simply see a new user name next
to your picture when you update. It is advisable to send out an update
to your followers before you change your user name, because any replies
or messages sent to your old user name will not be associated with your
account once you've changed to your new user name.</p>
<p> </p>
<h2>How long can real and user names be?</h2>
<p><strong>Your user name</strong> can contain up to 15 characters. Why no more? Because we append
your user name to your 140 characters on outgoing SMS updates and IM
messages. If your name is longer than 15 characters, your message
would be too long to send in a single text message. <br /><br /><strong>Your real name</strong> can be 20 characters long. Although your user name may contain only 15
characters, many real names exceed 15 characters. Since we rarely send
real name info via text message (except when using the WHO IS command)
we added extra characters for folks (like Konstantin Gredeskoul) with
longer names. Real names are also used in follow notification
and request emails to help accurately identify folks with user names
like cupcake25.</p>
<p><strong>Early birds</strong>:
you may have a user name or real name longer than user names we
currently allow. This is ok until you need to save changes to
your account settings. No changes will save unless your user/real name
is the appropriate length; this means you have to change your real/user
name.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Having troubles with user names? Check our <a href="http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10713/entries/14608">user name trouble shooting</a> page for help!</p>
<h2>What's the difference between your real name and your user name?</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Your user name</strong> is like a screen name; it's how people will
come to know you on Twitter. It appears in your profile URL and is
unique to you. User names are used for login, <a href="http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10711/entries/14023">@replies</a>, <a href="http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10711/entries/14606">direct messaging</a>,
and more. Your user name appears alongside your profile image in
friends' timelines each time you update, and we also include it in all
outgoing text messages. <br /> </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Your
real name</strong> is your full name, displayed in the sidebar
of your profile page and used to identify you to friends. This can be
helpful if your user name is something mysterious, such as @ic0n, or @meangrape. Some people choose to put something other than a name in that field.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><img src="/attachments/117324" alt="Twitter___candice-5.jpg" /></p>
<h2>How do I change my real or user name?</h2>
<p>Changing your name(s) is easy! Visit your Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/account/settings">account settings</a> to change both your real and user name.</p>
<p>1. <strong>Log in</strong> to Twitter<br /> 2. In the upper right hand navigation bar, click <strong>Settings</strong><br /> 3. Change the name in the <strong>real name</strong> or <strong>user name</strong> field<br /> 4.<strong> Save</strong> your changes</p>
<p>Changing your user name will not affect your exsiting followers,
direct messages, or @replies. They will simply see a new user name next
to your picture when you update. It is advisable to send out an update
to your followers before you change your user name, because any replies
or messages sent to your old user name will not be associated with your
account once you've changed to your new user name.</p>
<p> </p>
<h2>How long can real and user names be?</h2>
<p><strong>Your user name</strong> can contain up to 15 characters. Why no more? Because we append
your user name to your 140 characters on outgoing SMS updates and IM
messages. If your name is longer than 15 characters, your message
would be too long to send in a single text message. <br /><br /><strong>Your real name</strong> can be 20 characters long. Although your user name may contain only 15
characters, many real names exceed 15 characters. Since we rarely send
real name info via text message (except when using the WHO IS command)
we added extra characters for folks (like Konstantin Gredeskoul) with
longer names. Real names are also used in follow notification
and request emails to help accurately identify folks with user names
like cupcake25.</p>
<p><strong>Early birds</strong>:
you may have a user name or real name longer than user names we
currently allow. This is ok until you need to save changes to
your account settings. No changes will save unless your user/real name
is the appropriate length; this means you have to change your real/user
name.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Having troubles with user names? Check our <a href="http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10713/entries/14608">user name trouble shooting</a> page for help!</p>
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