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Aquiring an inactive twitter name
I have a twitter name for the company I work for I'd like to shorten it, but my preferred name is "used" by someone else, but they signed up in 2007 & has 1 follower & ZERO updates. Is there a way for me to get that account name?
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Inappropriate?If it's over 6 months inactive, you can request it, but you need to wait until Twitter fixes this bug before asking for it:
http://status.twitter.com/post/212318...1 Comment
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Mine is even weirder...Months ago, checked the username, and it was taken while inactive. Now It's not there any longer! Went on another computer, tried to open a new account with a different email address, but Twitter says that the username in question is already taken...Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
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Inappropriate?Actually this link says 9 months, and they are currently NOT manually releasing usernames. http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/...
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Inappropriate?How about a robot releasing the inactive usernames that have been inactive for 9 months? The username I was looking at used to be visible, but not any longer...so I went on another pc and tried to get it for myself, BUT it's not available, how can that be, it's like they are in warp space? If a robot was able to remove the inactive account from showing, how is it then that the username didn't go back into the pool? -
Inappropriate?Is there any news on this? There is an account that has been inactive for one year now and the page at http://help.twitter.com/forums/26257/... says Twitter is working on "bulk-releasing all inactive usernames".
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Inappropriate?So where do we request the Inactive Username, I want a username with 0 following and 2 status updates, from aug 2008. This is so difficult. Twitter needs to get on the ball.
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Inappropriate?Yes I want a link to request an inactive username. Thanks.
