Username Verification Site Namechk Celebrates Its First Birthday
Posted on 1 Apr. 2010, 9:36 PM by Jennifer Gosse

On our first birthday, we’d like to write a post about you! THANK YOU to all of our users and social media followers. Considering the difficult economy and the struggles that so many are facing, we hope that this free service has been useful for those wanting to take hold of their personal and corporate social media footprints. Being visible in social media has never been more important so keep checking back when you’re looking for a new username.

We sincerely appreciate your support and social mention shout-outs. Special thanks for Josh Lowensohn for his CNET article the day of our launch and a kind mention today in “Six April Fools’ Day launches that were real.”

So this year, please keep tweeting, mentioning and sharing about Namechk. And we’d love to hear from more of you: tell us what features you’d like to see in the year ahead. Just tweet us, or use the Suggest a Site link below.

 
The race for followers and the importance of maintaining your brand’s identity
Posted on 17 Apr. 2009, 10:34 PM by David Gosse

Its been an interesting week in Twitterland with Ashton Kutcher, @aplusk, challenging CNNBrk, @cnnbrk, to a race to 1 million Twitter followers. Kutcher revealed his challenge via this YouTube video where he promised to “ding dong ditch” Ted Turner’s house in Atlanta where he’s filming a movie, if Kutcher beats CNN to the punch.  At the time of the taunt, @aplusk had 842,550 followers, give or take a ... Continue Reading

 
Namechk hearts Twitter
Posted on 2 Apr. 2009, 10:22 PM by David Gosse

We really feel the love from many Twitter users, with whom we’ve shared some “tweet” reparte.  Thanks to these and many others: @mashable (thanks for the article), @scobleizer (thanks for crashing us), @josh (the first to write about Namechk at C|NET), @zaibatsu, @pitchengine, @Orli, @weblaunches, @guruvan, @Djchyk, @wendytimmons, @autismfamily, @upicks and @CharissaCowart.  And so, so, so many more!!! :)

Our goal, first and foremost, ... Continue Reading