What Characters Are Allowed in a Twitter Name?

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Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to share information, announcements or daily musings with the world. When you sign up for a Twitter account, you must create a name that people will use to search for and identify the tweets you post. Twitter limits the characters you can use in your username. Although the "@" symbol appears with your Twitter name on your tweets, you do not include it with your username when you create it.

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Letters

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Twitter allows you to use all of the letters in the English alphabet. Twitter names do not have to contain a letter.

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Numbers

You can use any of the numbers zero through nine for your Twitter name. The username does not have to contain a number.

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Underscore

Since spaces are not allowed in a Twitter name, you can use an underscore to separate words, letter and numbers. An underscore can start and end the name, and you can place multiple underscores together.

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Case Insensitive

Twitter does not differentiate between upper- and lowercase letters in a username when people search for that name or when you sign in to your account. However, you can use upper- and lowercase letters in your name, and it will appear that way on screen.

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Character LImit

The maximum length for a Twitter name is 15 characters. This includes all letters, numbers and underscores.

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