Comments on: Why @Twitter_Tips has become @TweetSmarter

By: My long, long conversation with “Alan”

My long, long conversation with “Alan” — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:18:33 +0000

[...] my wife and I abandoned our previous Twitter account (with Twitter’s help, at their suggestion), nearly 80,000 people followed the dead account…and over 31,000 were still following it eight [...]

By: Is learning Twitter really that hard? Yes, yes it is

Is learning Twitter really that hard? Yes, yes it is — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:50:15 +0000

[...] I joined Twitter in September 2007 (as @QuantumGood) and…made a bunch of mistakes. And I noticed almost no one posting “how to” links about using Twitter. So I started @TweetSmarter a few months later (in August 2008). It was originally called @Twitter_Tips—you can read the saga of our name change here. [...]

By: Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:13:08 +0000

Very sweet of you. I appreciate it I’ve been following you guys forever (well, forever in Twitter years, at least) on my personal account. You’re definitely one of my favorite feeds.

By: Dave Larson

Dave Larson — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:16:13 +0000

There’s a typo in your comment. I think you mean “well-deserved followers”

By: Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:05:50 +0000

Thanks for spreading the word! I got a bunch of new followers this morning because of you

By: Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:04:32 +0000

Thanks very much, Dave! I’m glad I went ahead and made the change. It wasn’t as big a hassle as I’d anticipated. And I’d felt the problem looming for some time. Your experience made it seem that much more pressing.

By: Dave Larson

Dave Larson — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:42:04 +0000

I’m tweeting about your change to help get the word out, Debra, and I’ve let my contact at Twitter know that you’re another great Twitizen trying to do right by Twitter

By: Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:00:57 +0000

I’ve decided to just take the plunge and make the change. Working on that this evening. I’ll have a post up about it soon on http://dhamel.typepad.com/twitterlitnews/

Thanks for providing the above information!

By: Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:31:12 +0000

I’ve been worried about this for a while with my @TwitterLit account (and @TwitterLitUK and @TwitterLitCA). So far the only inconvenience has been in not being able to update my profile. The reset password nightmare hadn’t occurred to me. Thing is, I’ve got over 10,000 followers, and there are presumably links out there that will be broken, so I’m not looking forward to making the change. Wondering what I should do….

By: Dave Larson

Dave Larson — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:45:48 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, Andi! Fixing now…