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Re:Twitter Hacker Says Admin Password Was 'Happiness' by jackowayed on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:38PM (#424312)
what? wouldn't that mean that anyone could try to log in to barackobama n times, get his login name changed, and then get barackobama's name?

You wouldn't get his followers, but you'd get a premium name easy.

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Re:Twitter Hacker Says Admin Password Was 'Happiness' by Alex3917 on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @10:46PM (#424419)
That assumes that the login name is the same as the account name.
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