The bulk update request #6662 is pending approval.

change category twitter_handle (795) -> meta

Reason: A Twitter handle falls somewhere right in-between signature, artist name and url, all of which are meta tags.
I think it only makes sense for it to be a meta tag too.

Should this even be a separate thing from artist_name? Other things like patreon_url are aliased to url.

faucet said:
Should this even be a separate thing from artist_name? Other things like patreon_url are aliased to url.

I mean if we're going this route then should artist_name really be separate from signature?

There's also the possibility to make twitter_handle imply artist_name, although I'm sure there are a handful of instances where the twitter handle doesn't match the artist's name - which would get in the way of aliasing the two come to think of it.

I'd also prefer to alias this to artist_name

I've had similar thoughts about artist_name vs signature. Imo the vast majority of images tagged artist_name should be moved to signature, watermark, and/or artist_logo, and artist_name should be limited to when the artist's name is a larger part of the image, like this (sorry it's not an e6 example, i just happened to see that tweet recently)
That's just a thought though, i'm sure there's a better way to do it

a good number of posts are just normal handles without twitter logo giving specification (@username) which is a norm for almost all social medias.
we would require to have all tumblr, deviantart, instagram, furaffinity, etc handle tags which is unnecessary if you can tag twitter logo and artist name simultaneously.

I'd prefer a general tag for any social media handle rather than specific ones.
For those wondering, social handles aren't always artist names or urls.

I don't think <site>_handle tags are all that sustainable. New sites pop up all the time, and sometimes an artist can share the same handle/name, so a single @name in the image could result in twitter_handle, furaffinity_handle, deviantart_handle, baraag_handle, bluesky_handle, etc, all being tagged. An artist can also change accounts, so @name may have been their twitter handle at one point, but now that account is deleted and they use @name2 instead.

Maybe an umbrella social_media_handle tag (or something with a better name) could work?

I can definitely see the point of wanting to phase it out but to me if twitter_handle is to exist, like it does now, logic would have it be a meta tag because of how it's (in 99% of cases) the artist signing their work.

Now if anyone wants to make some alternative aliasing request/BUR to delete the tag, feel free. I'll probably like it too because the point is that twitter_handle existing as a general tag feels incorrect. But to me if a social media handle isn't distinct enough from a standard signature to warrant having its own tag, then neither is artist_name from signature, so I agree with Cloudpie there.