How to alter Twitter username without impacting the followers?

The topic deals with the ways in which users can change their Twitter username without losing followers. The detailed descriptions regarding the step by step procedures are mentioned as follows.

Go to twitter home page

Log in to the account with your login credentials

Users will now have to select their username that is displayed in the upper right corner

Then click on the Settings tab from the drop-down menu

Users will now be navigated towards the Account tab

In the username field, users will have to enter their username

Now the twitter will automatically categorize whether the username the user have entered is valid as well as available

It has to be noted that the username will be saved only once the user clicks on the Save tab

Once the user decides on a particular username, they will have to scroll down and click on the Save button

Now the users can see that the username has been changed at the same time still maintaining the followers with them

For accompanying as well as directing the new followers to the correct account, the following steps have to be followed with utmost care.

It is always advised to tweet the current followers and indicate them about the name change

For example, users can refer their old name without using the ‘@’ symbol

Then the users will have to immediately logout

Then again navigate towards Twitter.com

Now the users can register for a new account by making use of their old name

Users can now start sending a single tweet from their OLD Name and their by intimate new friends about your NEW name

Finally the users will have to keep a track of the @ replies, new followers as well as DM feeds regarding their OLD name

After tracking, users will have to send an @ reply as well as DM from their NEW name for correcting all those users who tweets to the old name of the user

Users will have to note that tracking as well as managing both names and multiple feeds are made much easier by making use of a twitter clients with columns. Some of the examples include Tweetdeck and Hootsuite. It is always desirable for the users to provide columns for both old as well as new names that can be used for watching at the same time.

That’s it. Within a few days, users can see that everyone will be using the new name of the user.