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Re: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

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Post by atdt »

jrockway wrote: post #4

I don't think you can impersonate an airport. They should revise the message to say that they're taking his username for "imairportation". Kind of reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft Except in the real world, if you buy the domain name it's yours, while being an early adopter of Twitter just gets your account shut down if Twitter thinks they can make more money by giving it to some…

One of the senses of "impersonate" is "to manifest or embody in one's own person". Thus the person in impersonate is the person assuming the identity, not the person or thing whose identity is being assumed.

Re: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

#12

Post by UnoriginalGuy »

atdt wrote: post #9

He may have not created the account with the intension of misleading anyone, but he lost moral authority when he started replying to tweets in a manner designed to reinforce confusion (for example, by using the pronoun 'we').

Plus his profile picture is JFK airport's signage.

That's clearly designed to mislead. Just go look at his own screenshots of his tweets in the article. It is pretty damning.

Re: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

#13

Post by losvedir »

Ha, I know the early adopter pride. I have a cool phone number from Google Voice and occasionally drop "in my day" from my 10 year old reddit account. I know it's silly, but there's a little bit of pride there.

Must be sad to lose @jfk. I know technically he did have it coming, but it seems like the kind of thing where maybe you could get a warning first or something.

Re: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

#14

Post by atdt »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #12
atdt wrote: post #9

He may have not created the account with the intension of misleading anyone, but he lost moral authority when he started replying to tweets in a manner designed to reinforce confusion (for example, by using the pronoun 'we').

Plus his profile picture is JFK airport's signage. That's clearly designed to mislead. Just go look at his own screenshots of his tweets in the article. It is pretty damning.

It is not. It was derived from the banner image on this page:

http://airportparkingguides.com/jfk-airport-parking-guide/

I found it via a Google image search for "JFK airport"; it was the fifth result.

Re: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

#15

Post by jrockway »

atdt wrote: post #11
jrockway wrote: post #4

I don't think you can impersonate an airport. They should revise the message to say that they're taking his username for "imairportation". Kind of reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft Except in the real world, if you buy the domain name it's yours, while being an early adopter of Twitter just gets your account shut down if Twitter thinks they can make more money by giving it to some…

One of the senses of "impersonate" is "to manifest or embody in one's own person". Thus the person in impersonate is the person assuming the identity, not the person or thing whose identity is being assumed.

Overall unconvincing. People also messaged "him" to bemoan his assassination. Did they actually think they were talking to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, even though they obviously knew he was dead?

Re: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

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Post by cyberferret »

While I sympathise with the author, the end result was pretty inevitable. Getting a popular handle like that is both a blessing and a curse.

My experience from the other side: There is a well know budget airline here in Australia which (like all budget airlines) is renowned for it's poor service. After one particular bad flight experience a couple of years ago, I hastily sent off an annoyed tweet @airlinename.

A few minutes later, I received a barrage of insults and self righteous tweets from that account. Checking the account history, I see that is is some guy in the UK with the same handle as the airline, and looking at his historical timeline, it seems to be his routine day job to hurl insults at anyone who mistakenly tweets him thinking that is the airline's twitter handle.

Fair enough, I should have checked first. But he never pretended to be a rep from the airline - just a rude, bad tempered git with poor spelling and grammar skills, so I was never mislead, and I just forgot about the incident. Until a few months later when I checked on that account again and discovered that it was now a private account.

Re: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

#17

Post by UnoriginalGuy »

atdt wrote: post #14
UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plus his profile picture is JFK airport's signage. That's clearly designed to mislead. Just go look at his own screenshots of his tweets in the article. It is pretty damning.

It is not. It was derived from the banner image on this page: http://airportparkingguides.com/jfk-airport-parking-guide/ I found it via a Google image search for "JFK airport"; it was the fifth result.

You say "it is not" then link to something tying his profile image to the airport? All you've done is reinforce what I said, that it is clearly designed to mislead and impersonate the airport.

People in this thread act like this is "David and Goliath" when in reality the owner of the JFK Twitter handle intentionally changed his profile picture to one associated with the international airport then acted as a representative in order to generate complaints/bad sentiment.

It is pretty indefensible. It wasn't an accident or a mistake. He did it over days, not hours, and further compounded the deceit by changing the account's profile picture to misleading people into believing he was the facility.

Sorry, but I would have killed that account too. I would not be able to trust him not to do it again in the future, and frankly he might be better off losing it than getting sued by the airport (even if he doesn't appreciate that at the moment).

Re: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

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Post by ramparrt »

losvedir wrote: post #13

Ha, I know the early adopter pride. I have a cool phone number from Google Voice and occasionally drop "in my day" from my 10 year old reddit account. I know it's silly, but there's a little bit of pride there. Must be sad to lose @jfk. I know technically he did have it coming, but it seems like the kind of thing where maybe you could get a warning first or something.

Pride comes with embarrassment. I have an almost 12 year old steam account and am regularly ridiculed for playing CSGO poorly with a 10 years+ veteran's badge.

Re: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

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Post by [deleted] »

atdt wrote: post #14
UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plus his profile picture is JFK airport's signage. That's clearly designed to mislead. Just go look at his own screenshots of his tweets in the article. It is pretty damning.

It is not. It was derived from the banner image on this page: http://airportparkingguides.com/jfk-airport-parking-guide/ I found it via a Google image search for "JFK airport"; it was the fifth result.

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Re: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

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Post by jack9 »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #17
atdt wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not. It was derived from the banner image on this page: http://airportparkingguides.com/jfk-airport-parking-guide/ I found it via a Google image search for "JFK airport"; it was the fifth result.

You say "it is not" then link to something tying his profile image to the airport? All you've done is reinforce what I said, that it is clearly designed to mislead and impersonate the airport. People in this thread act like this is "David and Goliath" when in reality the owner of the JFK Twitter handle intentionally changed his profile picture to one associated with the international airport then acted as a represent…

They meant "it is not [JFK signage]" which is a pedantic attempt to deflect because they either have nothing to add or think it's fine and rather not defend it directly. The profile image is specifically related to JFK by image (which he sought and chose)...making it intentionally confusing or casually confusing because he rather use a clip of an image from a site dedicated to JFK airport, rather than make up his own MSpaint image. Indefensible is the correct term, if-and-only-if Twitter has decided that monikers don't mean anything unless they do. There have been similar fights in naming Guilds in WoW, AOL usernames, etc. It's to be expected and acting surprised is just noise.
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