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This is a scary story! Focusing on the Twitter handle sale part: I have the twitter handle @jetsetter, and have been offered multiple thousands of dollars for
by bredren 13y ago
This is a scary story!
Focusing on the Twitter handle sale part: I have the twitter handle @jetsetter, and have been offered multiple thousands of dollars for it (guess who!).
Unfortunately, selling a twitter handle is against TOS. Only @israel has been officially allowed to transfer hands for money, that I'm aware of.
So trying to broker the sale of a twitter account can allow the buyer to report your 'behavior' to twitter. They can seize the account and make it so no one has it, which may be what the buyer prefers to you having it.
So no matter the price you could command, it isn't like you could just list @n up for sale and make it rain.
- jordsmi 13y agoUnless you are talking on the actual twitter account about selling it you should be fine. If not I could just make fake email logs and report you.
- lingben 13y agoactually several twitter handles have been "sold" although the transaction was done in such a way that it was not as straightforward to get around the TOS the most famous is the CNNbrk handle
- markdown 13y ago> Only @israel has been officially allowed to transfer hands for money, that I'm aware of. Twitter: "I'm sorry, you can't do that." Israel: "What are you, some kind of Anti-semite!?!" Twitter: "OK, OK, go ahead and do what you want. See, we're not anti-semite :)"
- vxNsr 13y agoWell at least you didn't make some bad pun involving Israel, jews and money....
- vxNsr 13y agoIf you're refering to this: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/sep/14/twitter-user-sells-israel-username http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/sep/14/twitter-us... at the bottom a twitter representative is quoted as saying that as long as they give you permission to sell/buy a handle they won't block/lock the account. Also apparently CNN also purchased a handle[1]. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-acquires-cnnbrk-twitter-account-with-nearly-1-million-followers-2009-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-acquires-cnnbrk-twitter-a...
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- bredren 13y agoI wrote in 2009 describing the situation and asked for approval. I was turned down. Reviewing the support ticket now, I think I could have handled the sale more professionally. Maybe that's why.
- porlw 13y agoHow about setting up a company, GIVING the handle to the company, then selling the company?