How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by riffic on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @02:40AM (#7142544)

The ownership of twitter namespace is Twitter's alone, not the user's

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by sdk16420 on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:41AM (#7142749)

IIRC, Twitter officially doesn't allow you to sell your handle.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by riffic on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @04:31AM (#7142900)

I did not know that but I'm not surprised.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by chmars on Thursday January 30, 2014 @01:58AM (#7149388)

There's an agreement between Twitter and each user. And depending on the name used, Twitter users have own rights too, trade marks and of course domain names are examples.

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