Twittersquatting is the new Cybersquatting

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3 July 2009

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Ranting, Weblog, Work/Technical

Im getting sick to the fucking back teef of trying to register twitter accounts for my personal and business use – and some fucking drongo has already snapped them up.

For example, @olly is registered and not used, @adidas is registered and not used, @ol is registered and not used.

Need i go on?

I have tried contacting twitter support and asking to kick them off so i can have them – no joy! I have even tried tracking the people down that own them but still, no joy.

There needs to be something built in to twitter that, if a profile is registered then never used then it should be removed.

Losers.

thats some crazy twit, twitter

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5 responses to “Twittersquatting is the new Cybersquatting”

3 July 2009

Alex Nicol

True Dat!

I had to register JFN2009 instead of JessicaFaye or something similar

Never mind 🙂

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3 July 2009

Stu

The problem with that is that you can’t be sure that the person isn’t using the account. They may use Twitter only as something to read.

The only way you can tell it’s not being used is if they’re not following anyone and haven’t logged in for a fairly long grace period after signing up.

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3 July 2009

Adam

They should simply charge a fee for a twitter ID, like $2,99

Would open up resales of twitter ID’s etc

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3 July 2009

Dan

With Twitter, though I bet only some of this can be attributed to squatting. You see, twitter isn’t everyones cup of tea. People may register and then go “fuck this, what’s the point?” I know several people who have. And of course if they don’t cancel their account it’ll just sit there unused. It ought to be 60 days idle and they email you. A further 30 days and your account is deleted. Like how Hotmail is.

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3 July 2009

olstar

Yeah, some good ideas here.

And im sure the accounts i want are TOTALLY unused.

Stu – you dont need to sign up to browse twitter, do you?

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