International Law

After 3 years, 2 months and 15 days, and 34,557 tweets, I have decided to change my Twitter username.

When I signed up to Twitter in February of 2007, someone had already taken the username @peterblack, and so because I had signed up mainly to see if there were any educational uses for this little known social media tool known as Twitter, I tagged on three little letters to the end of my name and @PeterBlackQUT was born.  Since then Twitter has become an internet phenomenon in ways I never imagined at the time, and @PeterBlackQUT has become part of my personal brand.

To be honest, I have always been quite uncomfortable having my employer as part of my Twitter username, especially because it is in many ways more of a personal Twitter account, than a professional or work account.  And there were a few different things that happened last week (including the whole Nick Sowden incident), that provoked me to think a little bit about my public and private persona on the internet generally, and Twitter specifically.

So I have decided to retire @PeterBlackQUT.  I will now be tweeting from @peterjblack.

If you have been following @PeterBlackQUT, you should now automatically be following @peterjblack.  And if you would like to start following me on Twitter, just go to twitter.com/peterjblack.