How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by nicolethenerd on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @11:27PM (#7141874)

Twitter's official policy is that an account becomes inactive after 6 months - at that point, they reserve the right to release the account (in practice they rarely do this, though - there isn't an automated job releasing inactive accounts or anything)

https://support.twitter.com/articles/15362-inactive-account-...

@N (now @N_is_stolen)'s last post was 4 months ago, so he is still technically considered an active user.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by harryh on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @11:34PM (#7141898)

Activity doesn't require the creation of a tweet though. There are plenty of active accounts where the users just read.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by unreal37 on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @02:16AM (#7142477)

And there's nothing wrong with "just reading". Plenty of people post 100+ times per day and say nothing interesting at all.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by blueskin_ on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @04:50AM (#7142973)

Most of the userbase.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by doubt_me on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:08AM (#7142638)

That is what I do.

Less than 10 tweets in 3 years and all I do is read other tweets

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by xerophtye on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @04:40AM (#7142939)

Doesn't using Medium also coutn as accoutn activity?

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by monsterix on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @01:00AM (#7142223)

Not logging in for months or years at a stretch counts, IMHO.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by unreal37 on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @02:17AM (#7142480)

No one said he didn't "log in" for years. You can log in every day and leave no trace.

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