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Bamboo: I’ve been playing around with both a lot lately. I think my real name is important and may have gain capital with time, right now I need to run with what has the most muscles.

Janice: My pleasure, Janice. Link roundups can be a wealth of information. Thanks also for the great email suggestion. I really liked it. Looks like you’ll have a lotta instant love on Twitter, Janice. Liz and Cindy both joined this week as well.

Chris: Thanks, Chris. I’m glad they were helpful.

I also believe Danny is right in saying the pingback is lost as well as anchor text for SEO.

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Useful links in this post guys I didn’t know at lot of that stuff.

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@Bamboo – I read what you said about keeping things short over at Write to Done, but I have to say, I really enjoy your long comments like the one above! I haven’t been brave enough to dive into twitter yet, but I’m soaking up useful insights. Thank you.

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“you should definitely use your real name, real business name or **real brand name** as your Twitter @name.”

So apparently this post doesn’t only advocate using your real name but conveys that your brand name is also a good option.

As far as Writer Dad vs. Sean Platt, I think it really depends on what you want to accomplish. In my opinion if you want your website to be underscored you would use Writer Dad.

If, on the other hand, you want your personal name to come more into the focus you would use “Sean Platt.”

Thing is… if someone isn’t really acquainted with your name and wants to find you on twitter – their instincts are going to be for typing in ‘Writer Dad’ and not ‘Sean Platt’ since they are not familiar with that name.

I personally give the edge to using the name of one’s brand over the name of the person who owns the website.

Case and point:

Look at Leo Babauta…. His last name may be hard for people to memorize, to spell or even remember. But, “Zenhabits,” is as easy as 2 + 2.

As a result… I am uncertain why some out there feel more inclined to use their names and not the name of their brand. If they felt compelled that using more of a brand name for their domain superior to their own name then why would their assessment be any different for the url for twitter? Not exactly consistent logic if you ask me…

There is of course a third option. Look at what Darren Rowse does. And believe me… he’s a smart fellow. He simply uses “problogger.” He has his own name on twitter but doesn’t use it. He simply bookmarks it for telling people to get their arse over to @problogger.

Everything considered, I believe that using the name of your website is advantageous to using your own name, in the same way that it is often better to have a domain name that reflects what you’re trying to accomplish over using your birth name.

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