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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
I surrender. @shelholtz is my new Twitter handle
I give up. I can’t take it any more.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I’ve thrown in the towel and renamed my Twitter account from @shel to @shelholtz.
If you think this is because of the number of people who have been tweeting to me when they meant to tweet to Shel Israel, that’s not it. I’ve met some great people while directing them to Shel’s account, and I’m happy for any excuse to touch base with my namesake.
No, this was another problem, one I just couldn’t tolerate any longer. Here’s what was happening:
Somebody would tweet something like this:
Note that the first four letter of @Shelton_Scott begin with “shel.”
Now, somebody copies that message, adds some commentary, and tweets it without checking the character count. It comes out like this:
Which means all these messages come to me even though they have nothing to do with me. And they drive me nuts trying to figure out why the hell I’m getting them until I see the ellipses. To make matters worse, 90% of these messages are in Tagalog.
It happens 15, 20 times a day.
So I finally decided, the hell with it. I’ll sacrifice the five extra characters in order to get messages that are meant only for me.
I still have the @shel account and will be watching it for a while to make sure everyone knows where I am now.
(Note: A tremendous shout-out to Laura Fitton—@pistachio—for helping me figure out how to make the change considering I already owned both these accounts; all the instructions I found called for creating a new account.)
