Prashanth HN » Confusion http://prashanth.net/blog Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:58:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Twitter ID confliction: Shorter one or the one well known! http://prashanth.net/blog/2009/07/twitter-id-confliction-shorter-one-or-the-one-well-known/ http://prashanth.net/blog/2009/07/twitter-id-confliction-shorter-one-or-the-one-well-known/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:25:31 +0000 Prashanth http://prashanth.net/blog/?p=56 Living on Twitter since BCB4 (Barcamp Bangalore 4), July 2007. When I registered for Twitter, I had no idea about it & wasn’t serious on continuing it! So, I went with usual username which I use everywhere “hnprashanth”. But now a days it seem so lengthy, people often run out of characters (should I say 140!!?) because of lengthy usernames while replying or re-tweeting.

I made ‘n’ number of attempts to acquire @hn or @hnp on twittter which *were* inactive. But Twitter always replied saying “We will release all inactive usernames soon”, which never happened! Now, I don’t know what happened to these two guys, they are back on twitter :( I am just getting frustrated for not getting Twitter handle which I wanted the most.

Finally compromising a bit on username, I had registered @hnpr. But rejected right away by my friends on twitter!! Now it has become a tough for me to choose between @hnpr & @hnprashanth. Shorter one or the one well known to everyone!!?

What ya say!!?

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