Twitter more than doubles the length of user display names

Signing up for any service meaning facing the username battle. There are two obstacles: is your still username available, and does it meet the necessary requirements. With Twitter, getting an @YourName handle is tricky because there are simply so many users (and bots), but there has long been a highly restrictive limit on the length of names -- just 15 characters. Twitter has long offered something of a compromise in allowing display names that are slightly longer -- but only up to 20 characters. Now, the company has announced that there are now more than twice as many characters to… [Continue Reading]