Love the typo, I guess everything can be bought for a price.
Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name
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Re: Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name
#22> What I'm trying to do is keep tweeting therefore they can't take it if it's active.
Good luck with that, Twitter has a long history of taking handles on behalf of brands and celebrities...
Re: Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name
#23We may not have the full story here, but it doesn't seem like Instagram is disputing that they simply took it. I don't see anyone suggesting that they even attempted to contact the guy first. Outrageously poor way to handle things. Also, at what point does an Instagram account become "inactive"?
And what were they going to tell the guy? It's not like they were going to give him a choice, or offer him restitution. Not doing something like this leads to stupid stuff like having POTUS' handle be "real donald trump" (yes, I know choosing that handle predates his being POTUS, but you get the idea).
Are you saying that if another Pavel Lishin ascends to the office of U.S. President, you'd support him just being able to take away my Twitter handle?
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#24Twitter did the same thing to me a few years back. I registered @machinima back in 2006 or so and would semi frequently post links to interesting machinima videos I liked. After a couple of years I stopped posting for a while and I guess you could consider the account “inactive” even though my Twitter client was authenticated and checked it daily for activity via api (or so I thought). A few years ago I went to post something and found I couldn’t log in.
Never got an email about it or any form of contact. They just up and gave my account to the machinima.com company.
Re: Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name
#25We may not have the full story here, but it doesn't seem like Instagram is disputing that they simply took it. I don't see anyone suggesting that they even attempted to contact the guy first. Outrageously poor way to handle things. Also, at what point does an Instagram account become "inactive"?
Instagram doesn't specify a time for an account to be considered "inactive". > An account is determined to be inactive based on a number of things, including the date the account was created and whether the account has been sharing photos, commenting on photos, liking photos and logging in. https://help.instagram.com/397846020286683?helpref=related&r... From the article: > Kevin admits that he didn't have that many f…
Also probably determined by how much the PR firm is paying who want control of the account.
Re: Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name
#26I remember reading about this in their TOS years ago... I think they normally outline in under taking away names to give to rightful owners. (If you’re name is @apple for example ). This seems like a poorly handled extension of that power. But- truly just an example of how your use, data, name, etc on these services is really just at their whim.
Who would the "rightful owner" of @apple be? Maybe the one who registered it in the first place?
Or does that old instinct of defering to power make you want to give in to the presumptuous request of a large entity?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forget the ToS and sue for damages. That account had value and this is a poor business practice. Courts award value and the damages are to make a point that its a bad practice if the judge/regulator finds it disturbing. Assuming that the judge / consumer regulator will say "well but you clicked I agree" is a bad assumption, ESPECIALLY when European countries are involved. the company is just as likely to axe that con…
The user still has the account, just with a different handle.
“You honor, the mortage owner still has a house, just in a different district.”, said bank representative.
Re: Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name
#28Well, it feels weird to defend Instagram, but here we go. The important lines from the article are these ones:
> Instagram confirmed to Newsbeat that Kevin's handle had been changed in line with its policy.
> It allows it to make changes to an account if it's been inactive for a certain amount of time.
I tried going to the guy's new Instagram [1], but couldn't see any posts there at all. I visited his Twitter [2] instead, and except for a few posts he made from the exciting run in the last 24 hours, he hadn't tweeted since 2013.
I don't think they did a bad thing here — it's their platform, and they have some incentive to encourage a more lively and current community. Although it seems minor, one facet of this might be to help big users reclaim better names from the huge pool of defunct ones out there, especially given that Instagram has gotten so big that finding anything that's not a conflict is difficult.
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Re: Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name
#29Meanwhile, I've been emailing Instagram yearly for many years now trying to gain control of an account that has had 1 post and 15 followers for YEARS now, that is squatting on an account name that is the same name as a registered LTD that I actually own and use. Crickets.
Re: Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name
#30Their platform, their voice. It's not part of public domain. Unreasonable outrage from the HN crowd.