The Importance of Reading the Directions
I had an epic end user fail tonight. In an effort to create a brand of myself, I decided that all my web presences needed to have the same name. I was cybelledesign, miche, and lauermichelle. All of those names make it too difficult to recognize me on different sites. I chose "miche" to represent me. Cybelle Design will become developedbymiche.com and lastly, I needed to change my twitter account.
Like anyone who didn't read the instructions, I created a new account. I then proceeeded to spam all of my followers with "follow me at my new address". As people so kindly jumped on the band wagon, I unfollowed them from my old account.
And then it dawned on me. Read the directions. I didnt' have to create a new account and migrate people and lose my data and reset up TweetDeck. I can just change my username and all my followers/followees stay the same. Oy! Actually, I beleive that I tweeted "golly gee darn it!!!".
#fail
By now, I am sure I have annoyed everyone. If you were one of them, I am sorry. But, if you aren't already, please follow me @bymiche.
Comments
Take your new account and
Take your new account and rename it to your 'old' twitter name, then let people know what your current twitter name is... that way if you're old twitter name is linked from other places, they can still find you. So you didn't do a "bad" at all :)
Excellent idea!! So that I
Excellent idea!! So that I could use @bymiche for @lauermichelle, I renamed it to @bymichefail. I will follow your advice now. And then I am done breaking the internets for the night...