Comments on: Exchange for Twitter User Names Bending The Rules, Making Usernames More Like Domains

By: warren

warren — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:14:07 +0000

some experts not really bother about twitter and even predict the site going to close down soon.

By: Beggars Liars Thieves.

Beggars Liars Thieves. — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:09:17 +0000

If Twitter allows any trading of names for profit (given that it is a profit making business) then it could get its arse literally sued off by a registered trademark holder or done for defamation etc etc…

You want to be real careful with names, you damage someones business and they will damage you.

By: Advertising Exchange

Advertising Exchange — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:07:50 +0000

Traffiq.com has great advertising exchange services.

By: Jen Sale

Jen Sale — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:56:32 +0000

Does Twitter have any terms regarding TMs? Do you think a company has any rights to a username? I haven’t looked into this myself – just throwing it out there.

By: Chris Desouza

Chris Desouza — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:09:11 +0000

Bob said it best. There are 2 set of rules. Even among them domainers.

You have 2 choices…

1] Bend and rules and become big and strong.
2] Become big and strong and bend the rules.

By: Bzon

Bzon — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:14:59 +0000

I saved a lot of Twitter names of artists, websites and comapnies. There are a lot of free good names, titles and marks.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:06:09 +0000

@Tweexchange Twitter account shut down.

By: XR.com

XR.com — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:54:02 +0000

Twitter isn’t actually clear. http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/26257/entries/18370 says that they don’t allow you to sell user names, but they don’t say that you can’t hire someone as a consultant and as part of that consulting they transfer the twitter account (which is what CNN did). So, it shouldn’t be a site “selling” twitter accounts, it should be a site offering consulting services that include the transfer of the account.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:05:28 +0000

There are two sets of rules one set for the big guns like cnn and a second set for us. Twitter should have shut down cnn breaking account but needed to milk all the pr for the big race to a million followers.

By: Kevin Ohashi

Kevin Ohashi — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:32:43 +0000

CNN hired that guy who had cnn breaking account as a consultant to bend the rules didn’t they?