How to change your Twitter username, which is the name that comes after the “@” sign.
This guide will help you to change your Twitter username in a few steps.
- Click on the more
button with the 3 dots from the navigation bar. - Click on Settings and privacy.
- Click on Your account.
- Click on Account information.
- You will be prompted to type in your Twitter account password to confirm it’s you.
- Under Account information, update the username currently listed in the Username field. If the username is taken, you’ll be prompted to choose another one.
- Click the Save button.
You can change your Twitter handle whenever you’d like. Unlike Instagram, which limits you to two changes every 14 days, Twitter sets no limits on how often you can update your handle.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”,
owned by American company Twitter, Inc. Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, however, unregistered users have the ability to only read tweets that are publicly available.
Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs.
History of Twitter
Twitter’s origins lie in a “daylong brainstorming session” held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student at New York University,
introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. The original project code name for the service was twttr, the disemvowelled version of the word Twitter, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes.
The decision was also partly due to the fact that the domain twitter.com was already in use, and it was six months after the launch of Twitter that the crew purchased the domain and changed the name of the service to Twitter.
The developers initially considered “10958” as a short code, but later changed it to “40404” for “ease of use and memorability”.Work on the project started on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 12:50 p.m. PST (UTC−08:00): “just setting up my Twitter”.Dorsey has explained the origin of the “Twitter” title:
