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If squatting Twitter names becomes even marginally profitable you can be sure that squatters will be setting up bots that will monitor the availability of deact

If squatting Twitter names becomes even marginally profitable you can be sure that squatters will be setting up bots that will monitor the availability of deactivated usernames that were popular in the past and that as soon as these are released they will be taken. A delay of the kind you suggested will not stop the bot writers.

mc3 7y ago
Yes better to put the account names up for auction and bring in some revenue.
- eru 7y ago
  Donate the revenue to some charity, if the auction would be a PR problem otherwise. Eg https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html
- flurdy 7y ago
  Terrible idea.