Because the person with my username on Twitter is not me!
I was doing a search on my username/domain name (diastelo) on Google, when I unexpectedly got a hit on a Twitter account. Sure enough, diastelo is taken on twitter.com, and it’s not me!
(I run a search on my username a lot because it’s a good way to find people that are leeching my images. Image leeching is when someone links to an image on your website instead of moving the image to someplace like Flickr. I did find a leecher, by the way. Someone on some Twilight fan site *shudder* is using one of my images as the background for their forum posts, so that EVERY SINGLE TIME someone looks at one of their posts, it downloads the image, all 1024×768 pixels of it, from my website.)
My username is fairly unique and I’ve had the pleasure of using it for several years unhindered. It’s my web address, several of my email accounts, screen names for various chat programs, forum sites, etc. If you search for diastelo on Google, most of the 30 pages of hits come back to me. The rest are Google’s helpful attempts to rearrange my spelling or spacing to try to match more hits. The exception is the twitter account.
So, in conclusion, if you try to follow me on Twitter, and you can’t figure out why I’ve apparently gained the ability to speak Spanish (or is it Portuguese?), never fear. That diastelo ain’t me.