A friend and I are starting a new side-gig and were looking to setup a Twitter account to accompany it. Problem is, the name we wanted to use has been taken by an account that was created and hasn’t been used in over 10yrs. Given the time that has passed, we were wondering if there would be anyway to obtain the handle. Anyone from the birds nest care to help a pair of brothas out? #tech #twitter
Did you try Maga2020! yet?
Gah, solid shout, but the brand name is off unfortunately.
Damn. I listened to a podcast about a year ago about a hacker who specializes on handles that are "first". He was caught, but dude had skills. One was g@gmail or something like that. 🔥
Get a trademark and then try to claim it. Can take 2-3 years.
I may go the TM route, but 2-3yrs... 😭
Have you tried asking for it from Twitter? I made a request on GitHub and got the username I wanted since it was inactive. Maybe twitter has a similar policy
For sure. I wanted to ask here first as I know this community can be pretty useful. AFAIU old/inactive Twitter accounts are usually deleted and released back into the pool—could be wrong.
The password for the account is probably 123456789
I have tried with Twitter so many different ways and got nowhere. Trademark and copyrights are only way I think.
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Just hack it bro 👨💻
Haha, if only it were that simple my guy. 😞