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To use Twitter, one does not have to tweet.
If you're not interested in creating tweets then you don't really need to be taking up such a valuable piece of the namespace.
Or is it just vaguely notable?
Seems like Twitter could easily verify the story based on their own logs and then restore access to his N account. He doesn't mention pursuing that, though.
He said he wasn't using it much. Thus, isn't he basically a squatter?
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If you're not interested in creating tweets then you don't really need to be taking up such a valuable piece of the namespace.
Why is it valuable? What amazing things are other single character handles being used for? Or is it just vaguely notable?
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This is a scary story! Focusing on the Twitter handle sale part: I have the twitter handle @jetsetter, and have been offered multiple thousands of dollars for it (guess who!). Unfortunately, selling a twitter handle is against TOS. Only @israel has been officially allowed to transfer hands for money, that I'm aware of. So trying to broker the sale of a twitter account can allow the buyer to report your 'behavior' to…
the most famous is the CNNbrk handle
Who are people's current favorite domain registrars? I've been with name.com for the last year or so and have been happy, but I'm always curios to hear from others.
Who are people's current favorite domain registrars? I've been with name.com for the last year or so and have been happy, but I'm always curios to hear from others.
It's not a $50K Twitter username unless someone actually paid $50K for it at one point, is it? "Not accepting an offer of $50K for a twitter username I didn't use" doesn't really count...
Much closer than saying "I would sell this if I received a 50k offer."
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If someone had a Mercedes and only drove it twice a year, is it OK for someone to steal it?
No. But I'd feel less bad for that person than someone who drove their Mercedes every day and had it stolen. Also, a Mercedes and a twitter handle (or domain name) aren't exactly the same thing as a twitter handle is a unique owner of a particular pice of the namespace. A better analogy would be an owner of a valuable piece of property who wasn't putting it to good use.
So if you were not putting your backyard to good use you would not feel too bad if your neighbors decided to encroach on it?