The selection of the user name to be displayed on Twitter and other Web 2.0 properties is often ill advised and reduces your real visibility and is detrimental to your recognition. The first key element to keep in mind is that Web 2.0 is about the people and not businesses.
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The more you insist on yourself and your personality the easier it will be for you to also be recognized for what you do. Businesses are made of people therefore there is nothing wrong in talking about what you do an promoting your activities on Web 2.0 sites, but people will first and foremost connect with you as an individual and then they will become maybe interested in what you do.
Therefore the first safe bet for promoting yourself on Twitter, Facebook and all the other Web 2.0 sites is to secure the possession of your first and last name just as they are in normal life. If you have a common name and somebody else already took it up, then you can change it just a little by adding to your name some short word that better describes your personality. There is one exception to this. If you are well known with some other name pseudonym then you might prefer to use that one as your universal screen name. But be honest with yourself, if the pseudonym is not already well known then you should still set up your main account using your real name.
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Inside the Twitter biography information always use your full name (first and last) separated by a space, no matter what is the “screen name” you have chosen. In this way Google will find you when people are looking for you. Some people, even experienced Internet marketers, place something else in there or write firstnamelastname with no separation (just as it is in the screen name). Don’t do that! Google won’t find you!
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Last word of caution: Twitter fights against the practice of developing an account and then selling it to somebody else. Therefore if you chose a screen name like “cocacola” you are very likely to be shut down. Your account can also be suspended down if you suddenly change your screen name after you have developed a sizable list of followers. Usually you can get it back within a day or so, but it isn’t pleasant. Therefore chose the right name from the start!
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Roberto Mazzoni
Please read more of my blog posts on my new blog that has been created to host all of my content and that will be kept updated regularly from now on. Commodoreblack.com was my first blog ever and I owe it my beginning in this beautiful blogging world, but with experience I learned that it was better for me ton create a blog that carried my own name. And I advise you to do the same if you ever plan to start a blog.
Twitter is becoming one of the most popular Web 2.0 sites and a very effective way to keep in touch with other people and finding new friends, but it also become one of the main targets for spammers and hackers in general. For this reason the Twitter staff is becoming tighter in enforcing anti-spam rules and suspending accounts. Sometimes these rules change day by day, so you might end up having your account suspended because of somebody else’s actions.
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It is very easy to impersonate anybody while generating a tweet. Let’s say I want to create a spam message but I want to attribute it to you. I simply build a tweet that looks like this: “RT @yourtwittername spam text spam link” and send it from my account. People who read it will believe that the message was originally created by you and that I am simply re-tweeting it because I find it interesting. If anybody were to come to your account and look for the original message, they wouldn’t be able to find. But goes to all the work of checking it?
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Additionally the spammer will cover up his tracks by canceling the re-tweet message from his own account history after having sent it so nobody will be able to trace it back to him and Google won’t have the time to index it. Yet he will have obtained his result of spamming all the people who are following him, and using your Twitter name in doing so.
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I have personally observed this on my own Twitter account and the only remedy is to be on the watch. The danger here is of looking like a spammer while you are not and the fake Tweet could also contain a link to a site that has some kind of malicious software into it (like a virus). If this happens, Google picks you up as source of contagion, they report you to Twitter and Twitter suspends your account until the link with the virus is removed. So keep an eye on the @reply section of your account and change regularly the password to you account.
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Roberto Mazzoni
Please read more of my blog posts on my new blog that has been created to host all of my content and that will be kept updated regularly from now on. Commodoreblack.com was my first blog ever and I owe it my beginning in this beautiful blogging world, but with experience I learned that it was better for me ton create a blog that carried my own name. And I advise you to do the same if you ever plan to start a blog.
Please read more of my blog posts on my new blog that has been created to host all of my content and that will be kept updated regularly from now on. Commodoreblack.com was my first blog ever and I owe it my beginning in this beautiful blogging world, but with experience I learned that it was better for me ton create a blog that carried my own name. And I advise you to do the same if you ever plan to start a blog.
