Tag: ewan

My Secret To Grabbing Dormant Twitter names (like @Ewan)

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Just been name-checked by The Next Web (Hi Zee and the rest of the gang!) in their article detailing the oncoming Twitter Goldrush as they release inactive usernames to be registered. You see, Twitter are sitting on a lot of inactive names, and people want to grab the ones that are useful to them… especially if they’ve had one update to them, no followers, and been sitting there doing nothing for three years. There’s no official way to do this (yet) but as I’ve detailed before, you can mange it, as The Next Web has now reminded everyone: Besides that

Sidestepping to my new Twitter home

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The short blog post is if you are already following me on Twitter, then you don’t need to do anything. The longer blog post is that after a long and valiant struggle (err, hanging around the internet till I used the irl.api and bumped into the right person at Las Vegas), my Twitter name is now @ewan. If you were following me when I was @ewanspence then you’ll automatically be following my new shorter name. Only if you were using some weird system that checks my username, or have me linked from a biography site,  will you need to do

I’ll Be At BlogWorld Expo Next Weekend… Will You?

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Not quite a last minute decision, as I’ve been keeping an eye on flights and everything else surrounding next weekend’s BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, but over the weekend I booked the flight tickets from Edinburgh to the city of a billion lights… which were all paid for by people loosing at Blackjack. Anyway, the plan is pretty simple. I’ll be landing at 8pm on Friday (local time) and heading to the opening night party at The Mirage, hitting the conference floor all day Saturday and Sunday, and then flying back to Scotland from Monday afternoon. In terms of things