Check To See If You Are Being Impersonated
As any SEO marketer will tell you, your personal brand is critical. If someone else is using it, it can be a huge issue that can cause you money or, even worse, your reputation.
One way of checking to see if someone is infringing on your brand is to check whether or not your username/screen name is being used by someone else. Dialusername will allow you to check your username on all of the following social media sites in one fell swoop:
Digg
Gmail
Uservoice
Xing
Yahoo
Yotify
12seconds
Behance
Blogger
Brightkite
Colourlovers
Corkd
Dailymotion
Delicious
Diigo
Disqus
Ebay
Etsy
Favtape
Ffffound
Flickr
Friendfeed
Funnyordie
Hellotxt
Hexday
Identica
Ilike
ILikeTotallyLoveIt
Imageshack
Isfingawesome
Jaiku
Koornk
Kwippy
Lastfm
Linkedin
Livejournal
Magnolia
Meemi
Mixx
Multiply
Myspace
Odeo
Pandora
Picasa
Plurk
Posterous
Pownce
Rejaw
Smugmug
Soundcloud
Steam
Stumbleupon
Technorati
Tinyurl
Tipd
Tipjoy
Tumblr
Twitter
Typepad
Ustream
Vimeo
Virb
Visualizeus
Vox
Wakoopa
Wordpress
Youtube
Zooomr
All you need to do is enter your preferred username and click on the check button to see if your username is available or being used by someone else.
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4 Responses to “Check To See If You Are Being Impersonated”
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Chris rablee Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:56 amSucks,
My name, which I think is quite unique, is in use in several places I have no memory of ever signing up for. And I can’t log into them with my usual array of passwords.
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Jim Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:21 amI found several false positives - where I was told my username was taken, so I went and registered a new account with my same username.
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tfogarty Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:45 amInteresting, but in my tests it is not accurate. For example, I used a random num/char generator to come up with a fictional, 24 character length user name of 4heM7UHTBn2ZjRiKOag1yEW2 and there were 17 false positives and 5 failed checks out of 62 total tests. Great idea though, hopefully the designer will be able to work out the bugs.
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4heM7UHTBn2ZjRiKOag1yEW2 Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 8:05 pmHey!! I use 4heM7UHTBn2ZjRiKOag1yEW2 as my user name everywhere!!

