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This isn't nearly as exciting as the story of @N, but I just had something strange happen to one of my Twitter accounts, too. Registered "tweetcoin" handle awh
by photorized 13y ago
This isn't nearly as exciting as the story of @N, but I just had something strange happen to one of my Twitter accounts, too.
Registered "tweetcoin" handle awhile back for one of the projects I am working on, and posted on Feb 9 (my single tweet) - "Exciting things in the works" was my comment:
https://twitter.com/tweetcoin https://twitter.com/tweetcoin
Tried logging in today, couldn't log in. Ended up resetting pwd using my email account, and the reset link logged me in as 'tweetcoin1' - that's when I knew that my Twitter handle had changed from 'tweetcoin' to 'tweetcoin1'.
What's even more bizarre - another tweet appeared under that account. It was dated April 2012, and it simply said:
"This isn't your account."
- tagabek 13y agoThat's pretty strange. Did you contact Twitter?
- photorized 13y agoNot yet. I am not even mad etc.
- sp332 13y agoYou should probably tell them, so at least they know how often this kind of thing happens.
- joe5150 13y agoIt's a ha'nted Twitter account quite obviously.
- photorized 13y agoThat's the impression I got. I ended up using the renamed one, after renaming it once again from @tweetcoin1 to @usetweetcoin.
- kmfrk 13y agoIt's less than a fortnight short of 1,000 days ago, since people began criticizing Twitter for this behaviour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2646979 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2646979.