TweetDeck is another reason to use own name as user name on Twitter
Need another reason to use your own name, as opposed to a pseudonym, as your username on Twitter? Beyond the fact that your own name is how people know you.
For making it easy for people to give you proper attribution on Twitter on TweetDeck, a desktop application many of us use to Twitter.
I share relevant blog posts of others with my Twitter followers. Rather than just post a blog title and a link, I want to attribute the blog post to its author. I do this by putting the Twitter username of the blog author in parentheses after the text in my Tweet.
See the below example of my Twitter post where I shared Attorney Sam Hasler's blog post, 'What Other Indiana Family Law Blogs Are Saying.' In addition to the post title and link, I gave Sam attribution for the link I am sharing with the '@schasler,' Sam's username on Twitter.
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How'd I know that Sam's Twitter name was '@schasler?' I just keyed in 'has' in TweetDeck's autocomplete feature that came up after I hit the '@' key. Up popped Sam's Twitter user name in a brief list of people I follow on Twitter who also have 'has' in their name. See the below for what I mean.
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If Sam used a Twitter username such '@Indianadivorcelawyer,' something many lawyers too clever for their own good do, I could have never recalled such a username. I follow a ton of people on Twitter and know Sam as Sam Hasler, not some pseudonym.
In addition to giving proper attribution in your Tweets because it's proper net protocol, using a Twitter user's name lets the person know you've shared a blog post of theirs. If the person didn't know you before, they do now. Getting known is how you get the influencers to follow you and how you network to build relationships.
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