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

Re:My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not ... by jrockway on Sunday August 28, 2016 @09:41PM (#12379473)

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 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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Re:My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not ... by atdt on Sunday August 28, 2016 @09:57PM (#12379515)

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.

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Re:My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not ... by jrockway on Sunday August 28, 2016 @10:36PM (#12379626)

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?

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