This online life, one thing u badly need is a consistent username across all platforms.
And to get the username u want, you must be an early subscriber when the platform is launched.
For example, this month (July) is 10 years when Microsoft launched Outlook.com
Formally, it was called hotmail so we had emails like Asumasi@hotmail.com
Then on 31 July, microsoft did a new branding and called it outlook.com
I was in Atebubu then. I was roaming my roamining online and I saw a news of the release.
I quickly launched my Opera browser on my dell Inspiron and visited outlook.com and created my email, and that has been my main email since.
That is how come I have kaunda@outlook.com
Prior to that, i tried kaunda@yahoo.com, kaunda@gmail.com, and kaunda@OtherProbiders dot come. Those ones were not available.
In fact, I’ve mailed twice, whoever owes kaunda@gmail.com to let me buy it. No reply.
I believe whoever created it, is not using it again but since it is already created, no ine can use it again.
I hope one day gmail will auction usernames just as telegram is doing now, so that certain dormant usernames can be reused.
It is against this background (the desire to get @kaunda at threads) that I rushed to create threads account.
Since the platform is like twitter, I dont think i will need it now, but who knows what it will evolved to?
So i think its ok to secure a username there.
I tried creating account and realized we for login with Instagram account. I did not have IG account so I quickly created that.
I used the IG account to login to thread and the first thing I did was to set a username.
Unfortunately, it says :” Your name is linked to instagram account and can not be changed”.
WTF!
In that note, I deleted both instagram and thread apps.