http://everwas.com/2007/09/squitters.html Ian Kennedy's Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://everwas.com/2007/09/squitters.html/comment-page-1#comment-3969 Ryan Wilsey Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:19:00 +0000 http://everwas.com/2007/09/squitters.html#comment-3969 I love twitter-based words - always funny to say! Having said that, in the official terms of use, Twitter states that they reserve the right to reclaim usernames for those that officially own the trademark to the name. So in essence, nobody can really hold "hostage" a brand-name username. Ex: Nintendo is currently being squatted upon - but if the "Big N" wanted to use Twitter as a PR stunt, they could easily take it back. Which is good. I'd hate to have to see some stupid fiasco come out of this. ^_^ I love twitter-based words – always funny to say! Having said that, in the official terms of use, Twitter states that they reserve the right to reclaim usernames for those that officially own the trademark to the name. So in essence, nobody can really hold "hostage" a brand-name username. Ex: Nintendo is currently being squatted upon – but if the "Big N" wanted to use Twitter as a PR stunt, they could easily take it back. Which is good. I'd hate to have to see some stupid fiasco come out of this. ^_^

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