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Hi, did you know that when you put an activist slogan in your username, ALL your tweets show up in searches for that slogan?
So when you set your username to, say, "Ana TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS Mardoll", then when people try to search for the latest news on that slogan instead get my tweets about live-watching silly movies.
I mention this because a lot of white folks on my feed have "defund the police" in their username and when I'm trying to read up on the latest activist developments in the search, I instead get white people's entire 24 hour history, no matter how irrelevant to the topic.
Moreover, usernames with long slogans cause that slogan to be repeatedly read out for *every* tweet in a thread you write, for users who navigate Twitter with a screen-reader (or so I've been told). Emojis, too.
So for several accessibility reasons, I'm asking that your username be a *username*, and not a collection of slogans, emojis, and math symbols ("special fonts").
(I added my pronouns because otherwise people would yell at me for having a "girl name, but boy pronouns in profile" but I hope "he/him" is quick on a screenreader and not too much excess.)
Here are some examples of search noise. (I want to stress that this isn't a judgment on these people! Most folks don't know the search function works this way.)
