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For a while I had my display name (as opposed to @ handle) on Twitter set to the empty string. It didn't cause major issues as far as I could tell, though it wo

by ldjb 8y ago

For a while I had my display name (as opposed to @ handle) on Twitter set to the empty string. It didn't cause major issues as far as I could tell, though it would cause some Twitter clients to display my tweets unusually. I achieved this by entering a greater than symbol (>) in the input field. Twitter presumably tried stripping any HTML tags, which resulted in an empty string. I'm not sure if this still works; they might have fixed that bug. Presumably something similar happened with the accounts that have empty @ handles.

hk__2 8y ago
> I achieved this by entering a greater than symbol (>) in the input field. Twitter presumably tried stripping any HTML tags, which resulted in an empty string. I'm not sure if this still works; they might have fixed that bug. I just tried it and got the following error: > Name can't include 'invalid characters' Note how it doesn’t define "invalid characters".