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This is a fantastic idea, and I wish other services (I'm looking at you Twitter) would follow suit. Your Yahoo ID becomes a part of your identity when using the
by brianwillis 13y ago
This is a fantastic idea, and I wish other services (I'm looking at you Twitter) would follow suit. Your Yahoo ID becomes a part of your identity when using their service, so it seems reasonable that people will feel happier and be more inclined to use Yahoo's stuff when they have an ID that they feel good about and aren't embarrassed to share with their friends.
- nkorth 13y agoI went to sign up for Twitter and found that my usual username was taken by someone with exactly one tweet, from 4 years ago! It's definitely frustrating.
- anon808 13y agois it possible that you are using their usual username?
- michaelmior 13y agoTwitter used to do this upon request. I assume they stopped because a manual process was too time-consuming.
- UVB-76 13y agoI emailed Twitter four years ago with such a request, and got this response: > Twitter is not currently releasing inactive user names. Unless your user name issue involves Terms of Service violations, you'll have to wait until all inactive user names are released. We're working on a better long term solution for this, and we should have more news soon. Four years later, the username I want(ed) has had no more activity, and that "long term solution" is nowhere to be seen.
- michaelmior 13y agoWeird. I could have sworn it was sometime within the past four years that I emailed Twitter asking for a username and they granted it to me pretty much instantly.