My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”
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#4Kind 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 someone else.
Finally, it's not like he told people to message John Fitzgerald Kelley with complaints about KJFK airport. They did that on their own, and he just took it in stride. That's what passes for a terms of service violation these days.
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#7TL;DR - Guy with JFK twitter handle decides to impersonate airport. Outcome is predictable.
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#8I think our obsession with short/cool handles is strange, and even stranger is people building their "empire" on something that can be taken from you so arbitrarily.
It's the same as people expecting to get free-speech on Twitter/FB/Tumblr.
Even domains, which can't be taken from you on a whim, can be made far less "valuable" with the introduction on new TLDs.