Learn When That
Hot Twitter ID
You’ve Been Waiting
For Becomes
Available to Grab!
If you’re like me, when you first signed up for twitter, your preferred twitter ID was taken!
In my case, while @kim was taken by someone actually using it (good for her!), other derivatives of my name or brand name were all being “squatted”. Either they were intentionally being held by someone to keep them out of play – or – they had been registered by someone that rapidly got bored with twitter. Either way, they were not in use and yet were not available!
Twitter has a policy of freeing up unused accounts after approximately 9 months of no activity. However, keeping track of these accounts and “babysitting” them until they come free can be a royal pain in the ass!
So, it was a pleasant surprise this morning to get an email from TweetClaims.com which is a free service I signed up for a couple months ago.
Twitter claim is a super simple signup, and they do a once-daily (free account) check on up to 10 twitter IDs you wish to be notified of when they become available. As soon as the ID is seen as not existing (meaning you could register it), they send you a brief email.
That’s all there is to it! Sign up at Tweet Claims for free, and wait to get your email!
In case you haven’t heard, I moved from @Ask_KimC to @Ask_Kim … and would like to move once more to @AskKim but that may be a while off.
Great tool, go check it out and let it babysit those squatted accounts so you don’t have too!
Kimber
PS: Like the cool pre-coded follow me on twitter icons? Check them out free from twitter at: http://twitter.com/goodies/buttons
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Simple yet awesome. I have a handful of sites that didn’t get the best twitter usernames. I better get on there and make a list
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Yay! Glad you found this useful! I figured I wasn’t likely to be the only one watching for twitter names to free up if there was a service for it!
I have to add that I was really surprised that I got zero spam from them and even the notification that the account was available was under three lines of text. Super short, clean, non-spammy stuff. Love it!
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thanks Kim! i doubt the other Melissa McCloud is gonna give it up anytime soon but here’s hopin!
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Kim this is a nice little tool. I am starting to use twitter a lot more and even have a twitter resource page on my blog. Thanks for the advice.
Steve Shoemaker
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Hey Kim,
Thanks for sharing this tool with us. I’m going to start using it.
Chat with you later…
Josh
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Great find Kimberly. I reckon there will be a hell of a lot of people that will find this post useful so I’ll give it a Tweet for you.
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Thanks Kim, It is definitely worth bookmarking. Not sure though, Does it search deleted account in real time?
The free version only runs a search once a day. Their paid version searches more often. Even the paid I dont think isn’t quite real time. Its still not bad for a free tool though.
Hi Kim, I find your post very amazing. It’s really worthy of bookmarking. I believe this is a valuable tool. Thanks for sharing this useful information.
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Thats a really good tip! thanks
I bought a book on Twitter Application Development and I am looking for ideas for an application I can put on a domain. Thanks for the tip, let me know if you have any other. Once the site is up, I will send you a tweet.
Cool…. post I will be useing this tool
I love your tweets keep them coming Kim!
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Thank you Kim lucky me I discovered your blog. I’m following you on twitter so I’m all the time in touch
This is so cool to learn: always wondered if such a service existed but never did take the time to find out!
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