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Christene replied on October 10, 2008 19:56 to the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Not sure how long replies usually take but I requested an inactive username on September 24th. Request access key: 323548

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A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Crystal, I sent you an @reply, but thought I'd mention my request here too (320430). The username I want only has 2 tweets total and the last one was over a year and a half ago. I opened a previous support request (access key 310855zhddgx), but it was closed without any response being sent to me. Thanks for your help! – Park Silkenson, on October 03, 2008 15:26

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Excellent, please do share with them. Hopefully it's something you guys can implement one day. You said there's no way to do this, but it seems to me that the bug you fixed was doing just this so maybe that could just be controlled. Anyways, thank you for the response and thank you again for the username transfer. I rated you guys a 10 over here: http://getsatisfaction.com/companies. Well deserved. – srizvi1, on September 24, 2008 23:49

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

generally, accounts are removed after 9 months of inactivity. sometimes they aren't though, in which case we have to remove them manually. It looks like this other user name has a few months yet before the account can be taken down. we may modify this in our shiny new terms of service, coming (hopefully!) soon. – crystal, on September 24, 2008 22:45

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

That's a good idea; right now there is no way to transfer or merge user data from one account/user ID to another. This would be an interesting way of facilitating that if necessary. I'll share that one with the team! – crystal, on September 24, 2008 22:42

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Hi crystal, any chance to get a follow up on my last comment? I just wanted to ask the status of one more request: 269062 – srizvi1, on September 23, 2008 13:17

srizvi1 replied on September 23, 2008 13:16 to the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Thanks for getting back to my Crystal and MDY. I guess I'll go ahead and sign up the old, now-changd username again and just make a post pointing towards the new username.

Perhaps this could be a feature respect to consider? this "bug" you fixed is what I would like to permanently happen. Again, it would really be nice to have a "username" be able to be mirrorred by username_com and usernamecom (I can't think of any other alternatives).

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

tom: done! – crystal, on September 22, 2008 21:48

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Crystal Rocks! – peedy, on September 22, 2008 20:42

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Done Crystal :) Thanks. – Tom, on September 22, 2008 20:19

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Done Crystal :) Thanks. – Tom, on September 22, 2008 20:19

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

tom: replied to your ticket, just need a little bit more info – crystal, on September 22, 2008 20:11

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

peedy: done! (I meant that you can send me an @reply on Twitter, but this works too) – crystal, on September 22, 2008 20:09

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

The brief account mirroring was actually a bug, which we fixed. Once we change your user name, the old name is free for anyone to take. If you delete an account, the user name is taken out of circulation.

If you want to create a new account with the old user name as mdy suggested, it's sometimes helpful to make a post pointing to the old account with the new user name. You can always remove unwanted accounts at later date, which will remove the user name from circulation for up to 6 months. – crystal, on September 22, 2008 20:06

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Hi Crystal, my ticket number is 320715. Thanks :) – Tom, on September 21, 2008 19:10

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Crystal, I dunno how to send you an @reply on here......my ticket number is 318033. I hope you can help me – peedy, on September 21, 2008 17:55

A comment on the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

In your shoes I would go ahead and create a new account that uses your old account's name. If someone else wants it, they can always request it through Twitter Support. – mdy, on September 19, 2008 14:23

srizvi1 replied on September 19, 2008 14:07 to the question "Can an inactive Twitter page/username be removed by request? Or even a request be sent to the current inactive owner?" in Twitter:

Thanks to Crystal's help (http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to... ), my name change went through and I was able to change my twitter username from "currentsitename_biz" (since you can't use "dots") to just the my "currentsitename." This is awesome for our brand identity.

I had a question though: Right when a username change goes through, there's this short time period where both the new account and the old are working and mirroring each other. Now, a few days later, my old account is dead, but a part of me wants to secure it to lock in our site's identity.

I think ultimately, if you have a website that you want to have a twitter account for, you would like to have "sitename", "sitename_com" (or _net, or biz, etc.), and "sitenamecom."

That doesn't seem like a squatting practice does it? If it's understood that this iisn't a squatting practice to deprive new users of name choices, would it be possible to have these accounts mirror each other like they do temporarily after a name change goes through?