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0 pointsuptown10y ago0 comments

No idea. But I'd throw $100 their way to buy an account that's been dormant for six years.

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Due to vanity reasons (they have "your" handle?) or for some other reason?

uptownOP10y ago

It correlates to a domain for a site I'm in the process of building. I haven't registered the brand's trademark yet, so I'm unable to claim the Twitter username based on that criteria. Seems like the only route they provide for this kind of thing.

pratyushag10y ago

I believe if you have the domain name you should be able to get the twitter handle. You can always just submit for a trademark, that's easy and cheap.

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slayed010y ago

why?

dangrossman10y ago

Dormant accounts can hold good handles forever. Like the name of my website: https://twitter.com/improvely

softawre10y ago

Imagine you have to write an algorithm to determine twitter spam. Would it include accountCreatedDate?

minimaxir10y ago

The algorithm would probably contain a dummy variable representing isYoungerThanXDays where X is the median number of time it takes to create a new account after it has been banned.

I doubt accounts that are Y days old vs. Z years old have different probabilities of being spammers.

nikanj10y ago

https://twitter.com/blacktopcabs

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