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"twitter can't be blank"

Why not?

so does the last name, for some reason last name can't be blank, do we have to use our last names? it's not a must. why is it compulsory?

I don't know why it's not public to some people, i just signed up it was not as cool as i expected

http://ruky.svbtle.com/trying-my-thing-with-svblte

clearly, it's because they don't want royalty to join! ;)

(AFAIK, most royal families dont have last names)

They do, they just don't use them everyday. E.g. the Tudors were called the Tudors because that was their surname. Current lot are the Windsors I think.

Yes they are. They changed their surname to Windsor after high anti-German sentiment during WW1. [1]

Prior to that they were the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's.[2]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha#...

Surprised they don't also ask for your Klout score.

Probably because it is built around the assumption that the author has a twitter account.

I guess the question was, why would you make this assumption in the first place.

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