diff --git a/lib/site_template/_config.yml b/lib/site_template/_config.yml
index 2c0d7379..1ed21acb 100644
--- a/lib/site_template/_config.yml
+++ b/lib/site_template/_config.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ email: your-email@domain.com
 description: "Write an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description."
 baseurl: ""
 url: "http://yourdomain.com"
+twitter-username: jekyllrb
+github-username:  jekyll
 
 # Build settings
 markdown: kramdown