It doesn’t even take that much. Twitter simply took @mattness from me – without notifying me – because they claimed it was unused. That was a few weeks before I was ready to launch my redesigned website…
I wrote to twitter support and they basically told me that well, it didn’t look like the account in question had my email address on it.
Unregulated centralized name registries are not a good thing.
Very interesting... and thanks for the detailed post... even though @N is a protected account now, its current set of 30+ followers may know the shameful deed done by the current owner. May be Twitter should suo moto take action too.
I wrote to twitter support and they basically told me that well, it didn’t look like the account in question had my email address on it.
Unregulated centralized name registries are not a good thing.