It’s a Twitter week! My friend Jennifer MacDonald asks, “I have been pondering and asking many people their opinion on Twitter handles. If you are a professional in the social media space, should your Twitter handle be your real name, or is it ok to use a nickname/hobby? If you use a nickname, do you still appear as a professional to those who do not know you?”

My answer is in the following video, with a special guest appearance from The Beast. Do you agree with me? What do you think?

Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich is the founder, CEO, and author of Spin Sucks, host of the Spin Sucks podcast, and author of Spin Sucks (the book). She is the creator of the PESO ModelĀ© and has crafted a certification for it in collaboration with USC Annenberg. She has run and grown an agency for the past 19 years. She is co-author of Marketing in the Round, co-host of Inside PR, and co-host of The Agency Leadership podcast.

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