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Can I put a link to my Twitter account?

However, some of use also like to keep identity sacred and connecting X account might reveal true ID, the forum is pseudonymous. Privacy matters to some.

What @hilariousandco meant is that you can put your twitter link on the provided area for additional handles;
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/08/10/USRUiv.jpeg
And not to create a thread asking for people to connect with you on X (twitter)

However, some of use also like to keep identity sacred and connecting X account might reveal true ID, the forum is pseudonymous. Privacy matters to some.

It is unwise to do that. For many people in CT, X accounts are mainly used for crypto-related news, bounties, campaigns, giveaways, and other specific niches, or simply as dump accounts. I rarely see people use them for personal matters, usually, that is more common among public officials or similar individuals who use their real names on the platform.

To be precise, you can't have Twitter link on your profile as there is no dedicated place for it. There is some obsolette things that you can have on your profile like ICQ, AIM, MS, YIM. But yeah, you can have it on Website space or in your signature.
It's everyone's choice whether they want reveal identity or not, but having Twitter account doesn't neccessarily means that you will reveal idenity. It might be business profile or your nickname.

There is some obsolette things that you can have on your profile like ICQ, AIM, MS, YIM.

Some members here were born after these services have launched or their closure.
Is there a way to update these things @admin?

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like your proposal is going to be part of the many social network proposals that have been made in the past and have been totally ignored.

1.  Add a Telegram contact method. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=977465.0)
2. Can the mod add GetGems Messenger to Forum Profile Information? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1002706)
3. Profile information (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2836878)
4.  The profile page should be changed. No one uses ICQ, AIM, MSN or YIM.] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5114201)
5. Adding Telegram on the profile page (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5133388)
6. Suggestion to change the obsolete social media from account info (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218335)
7. Why do we still have options for MSN, YIM etc? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5347996)

I've read through the topics helpfully posted by logfiles (thanks, man), and I've looked at the relevant SMF code, and I think I can put together a patch to improve the usefulness of those old fields. It's a little tricky because those fields have been baked into SMF's code without much forward-thinking or extensibility in mind, so I don't think it's wise to keep adding new fields using the current approach (both from a programming point-of-view and in terms of visual clutter). Even though most of those fields now refer to defunct services, I also don't think it's wise to remove any of them (with Bitcointalk, especially when messing with existing functionality, my inclination is to have a conservator/preservation mindset and to steer well-clear of destructive updates).

Yep. That's just about the best way to approach it, IMO.

I think the "Skype" field should probably be moved upwards to sit with the other fields, like this:

https://talkimg.com/images/2024/02/13/vKfVG.png

Then, I think those 5 field labels could be converted into dropdowns, like this:

https://talkimg.com/images/2024/02/13/vKypD.png

That way, everyone's existing field values would remain intact, but people would be free to switch them out for more modern alternatives (and whenever those get out-of-date, adding new choices would be really simple).

There's some extra per-choice stuff to keep track of in the background (an icon, a regex to limit what can be entered, a template to transform what was entered into a link, etc.) and some database adjustments would be needed (I think ~5 new columns on the members table, and 1 new table to catalog the available choices would probably do it).

I'll see what I can come up with in my test environment...

(If anyone has any notes/ideas about this, feel free to either leave them here or PM me about it.)

...but you should not put a scammer link there, so that people do not fall victim to a scam or a phishing link, which could steal information of visitors upon clicking it.

This was the last topic  ---> [proposal] Update Profile > Social Networks ICQ/AIM/MSN/YIM (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5477924). Maybe you can bump it to remind the admins yet again.

There was some glimmer of hope in that thread though

It will be nice if you tell Op the consequences of putting scam links in his profile incase they will want to do so.
Op, if you promote scam with your signature or profile, you will be red tagged and that will be the end of your account here.

Why do you think that OP may have intentions to promote scams? From his posts it doesn't looks like he potentially can do it. But yeah, if he will do it, he will get same consequences like he would do in any other place of forum. I assume that every person who promotes scams understand that may end not good for them.

Can I put a link to my Twitter account?

Can I put a link to my Twitter account?