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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:

Rilee, plus submit a help ticket at http://twitter.com/help to ask for the name. – mdy, on July 24, 2008 04:45

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:

Hi, there's a username: Rilee thathaven't update for over 9 month, will you release it? – Rilee, on July 24, 2008 01:31

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. Try submitting a support ticket to ask for the username at http://twitter.com/help – mdy, on July 19, 2008 11:51

bandesz replied on July 19, 2008 11:37 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:

Hi, i'd like to register username "bandesz", which is taken, but was never updated. Is there a chance to get this name?

shiva replied on July 15, 2008 19:36 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:

I got my name! yipee...

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:

Chuck - a help request will get this done. I obtained an inactive username within max. of 10 days from submitting a help request. – ciotog, on July 15, 2008 19:04

Chuck Mallott replied on July 15, 2008 18:59 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:

this does not bode well, since I am just starting this process. grrrrr.

alosii replied on June 30, 2008 05:28 to the problem "I do not receive any updates to my mobile phone, even when twitter says i'm getting the updates. what's wrong??" in Twitter:

I'm having this problem also. Is this a problem with Telcel (the phone carrier) or twitter?

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:

shiva, you might be better off submitting a help request at http://twitter.com/help – mdy, on June 01, 2008 03:15

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:

I'm looking for the username "shiva" (see my other comment below). The account has been inactive for over a year now, and yet the account remains. I'm trying to re-brand myself across web2.0 tools and would love that name. Plz Plz do something. – shiva, on May 31, 2008 14:28

shiva replied on May 31, 2008 14:27 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:

I am aware of twitter's problem with scaling.. but they've gotta do something about this. I am sure, that by getting rid of accounts with no updates/activity, they can reduce the scaling problem (atleast to some extent).

Do let me know how I can request for a username that's been inactive since Feb 07!! Come on guys!

MN replied on May 30, 2008 15:32 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:

11 months is nothing, I've seen accounts MUCH older than that, sitting dormant. It's ridiculous. I'm not about to register some long sentence for a username because that's basically all that's left to register on Twitter.

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:

Or submit the request through http://twitter.com/help – mdy, on May 29, 2008 00:17

Glider replied on May 04, 2008 21:04 to the problem "I do not receive any updates to my mobile phone, even when twitter says i'm getting the updates. what's wrong??" in Twitter:

Same problem in Russia. Tried to re-activate the phone notifications once more, received a couple and it screwed up again.

cocolaco replied on May 04, 2008 09:18 to the problem "I do not receive any updates to my mobile phone, even when twitter says i'm getting the updates. what's wrong??" in Twitter:

I haven't been receiving SMS updates either, for a couple of days. I'm using the UK number (I'm in Australia).

Stefan Fountain replied on April 24, 2008 18:01 to the idea "Could someone log in to Get Satisfaction without signing up?" in Get Satisfaction:

Thanks Thor for your quick reply.

The more relevant and good example that _exactly_ answers my question is here: http://developers.getsatisfaction.com...

"You could, for example, allow users of your system to link their accounts to our accounts so they don't need to login to satisfaction when they want to ask a question about your service."

I hadn't seen that at first glance, so chapeaux to you guys!

Stefan Fountain replied on April 24, 2008 18:01 to the idea "Could someone log in to Get Satisfaction without signing up?" in Get Satisfaction:

Thanks Thor for your quick reply.

The more relevant and good example that _exactly_ answers my question is here: http://developers.getsatisfaction.com...

"You could, for example, allow users of your system to link their accounts to our accounts so they don't need to login to satisfaction when they want to ask a question about your service."

I hadn't seen that at first glance, so chapeaux to you guys!

Thor Muller replied on April 24, 2008 14:58 to the idea "Could someone log in to Get Satisfaction without signing up?" in Get Satisfaction:

I'm happy to announce that we have completed support for OAuth in our new open API. This gives companies a huge amount of control over how they pass-through their logged-in users without requiring them to register anew. Read about it here: http://blog.getsatisfaction.com/2008/...

OpenID support is coming next.

Thor Muller replied on April 24, 2008 14:58 to the idea "Could someone log in to Get Satisfaction without signing up?" in Get Satisfaction:

I'm happy to announce that we have completed support for OAuth in our new open API. This gives companies a huge amount of control over how they pass-through their logged-in users without requiring them to register anew. Read about it here: http://blog.getsatisfaction.com/2008/...

OpenID support is coming next.

Stefan Fountain replied on April 24, 2008 14:52 to the idea "Could someone log in to Get Satisfaction without signing up?" in Get Satisfaction:

We'd love to integrate our user accounts with our section on GS, but forcing users to create a new account is counter productive. Like the comment above referring users creates unnecessary friction.

So I would like to ask a more concrete question to this discussion.

Can you give us examples of how we can use OAuth to hook our existing users into creating an account and getting them going nice and quickly?

Using OAuth would be perfect to create a transparent support mechanism using the our own user accounts without having to rebuild your (very good) interface for community based support.