If you’ve been trying to obtain another Twitter username, you probably know that you are required to associate a different email address for each one you create. Luckily, if you have a Gmail email address, there is a simple workaround to this problem.
Let’s say your Gmail email address is janedoe@gmail.com. If you add a dot (.) anywhere in the username, all email messages will still reach your inbox. In other words, any of these and other related email addresses will still make it to your account:
- jane.doe@gmail.com
- j.anedoe@gmail.com
- jan.edoe@gmail.com
- j.a.n.e.d.o.e.@gmail.com
Here’s a further explanation by Google:
Gmail allows only one registration for any given username. Once you sign up for a username, nobody else can sign up for the same username, regardless of whether it contains extra periods or capital letters; those usernames belong to you. If you created yourusername@gmail.com, no one can ever register your.username@gmail.com, or Your.user.name@gmail.com. Because Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours.
One more solution…
According to the popular tech blog, labnol, every Gmail account also comes with another valid email address using a googlemail.com domain. In other words, you can also apply the same method of adding dots to a googlemail.com domain as you did with the gmail.com domain.
Heck, if you don’t believe any of this dot-adding business, go ahead and try logging into your Gmail account with the extra dots in your username.
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With gmail you can create additional aliases by adding a “+” after your username.
e.g. john.doe+junk@gmail.com, john.doe+spam@gmail.com, john.doe+hashtag@gmail.com
2 years ago
Thanks for the tip, Andrea!
2 years ago
It works! I am amazed. Makes things so much more simpler.
Thanks
11 months ago
This is extremely awesome! It is going to make my life so much easier now that I can use my gmail account in so many different ways. I just have to keep track of it all.
Thanks!
2 years ago
Also if you have dots in your gmail address (or think you do), you can leave them out! Who knew!
1 year ago
I want to create multiple websites. I can see how to change my gmail to be able to do this but when I try to create a twitter account it takes me to my old twitter account. I made a new gmail by using frankcrowhurst+snipper@gmail but I haven’t been able to create a new twitter account with my new email. This probably sounds stupid. Using Hack would it help me create a new twitter account using my new email address?
I want to promote the above URL
I do hope you understand what I am trying to say.
Frank Crowhurst
1 year ago