Twitter squatting

[paulsb]

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/34635

[lsemel]

There are no ownership rights in a twitter name. I had some company names and they were reverted over to the companies by twitter itself.

[sjs382 → lsemel]

Do you know the process to get a name's ownership?

[ivankirigin]

When tipjoy launched, Mark Mayhew ( http://markmayhew.com/ ) claimed http://twitter.com/tipjoy for us, and gave me the keys. It was really nice.

[brm]

If you're using twitter to engage people and not just push content then your name shouldnt matter much as it will show up in your @replies...

If, like most corporations, you still see twitter as a push tool then yeah you're screwed because people wont be able to type your brand name and find you.

Twitter seems to be pretty good about turning over trademarks though

[pchristensen]

And pchristensen is taken. Thanks for giving me the top too late, networkworld.com.

[PStamatiou]

I did that. @WordPress was originally mine but I gave over the keys when I met up with Matt at some event.

[wmf]

Flat centralized namespaces are bad; creating new ones is worse.