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> Usernames are hard. Perhaps, in an ideal world, we'd all use Indie Auth and use our domain names as our usernames. I'd be twitter.com/shkspr.mobi, for example.

Can we use our domain name as our username on twitter? Is dot a restricted character?



Twitter only allows a-z, 0-9, and _

So no domain-names-as-usernames there.


You can use the first half of your domain name. I saw that on a business card once, the guy wrote his email and then highlighted and labeled the parts of it for Twitter and Mastodon.




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