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Great! That would just cause a flood of bulk Twitter name registrations.

• johnrob 18y ago
  Twitter accounts are not domain names. Right now, the hype is all about large follower accounts and how you get them by following followers of existing popular users. However, a follower is not worth as much as a website visitor, because they are passive. I know first hand that notification based content has very low response rates when compared to active content (search being the best example of active). So... the power of a great domain name is that people who type it into the browser are active. For example, if you have a good typo-squatted domain, you can get active visitors who, although mistyped the name of the desired website, are nonetheless interested in your content and are (relatively speaking of course) very likely to click on your ads.
  • andr 18y ago
    You are right in theory. In practice there are already tons of Twitter usernames squatted, and Twitter is not doing anything to manage those. The monetization of user names would only make the practice more popular.