Comments on: BBC Impostor Fools 7,684 People (Control Your Twitter Name, Even if You’re a Twitter Sceptic) http://nativehq.com/index.php/2009/01/bbc-impostor-fools-7684-people-control-your-twitter-name-even-if-youre-a-twitter-sceptic/ Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:36:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: BBC Takes Back Control of Rogue Twitter Account (Lessons for Brands) | native http://nativehq.com/index.php/2009/01/bbc-impostor-fools-7684-people-control-your-twitter-name-even-if-youre-a-twitter-sceptic/comment-page-1/#comment-69 BBC Takes Back Control of Rogue Twitter Account (Lessons for Brands) | native Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:39:03 +0000 http://www.nativehq.com/?p=257#comment-69 [...] Yesterday I wrote about Twitter name squatting and included a recent example where a rogue person had registered the name BBC on Twitter. [...] [...] Yesterday I wrote about Twitter name squatting and included a recent example where a rogue person had registered the name BBC on Twitter. [...]

]]> By: Ari Herzog http://nativehq.com/index.php/2009/01/bbc-impostor-fools-7684-people-control-your-twitter-name-even-if-youre-a-twitter-sceptic/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Ari Herzog Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:04:14 +0000 http://www.nativehq.com/?p=257#comment-63 This is a fascinating account, pun not intended, Carl, and you provide excellent advice! And to think earlier this week I learned that The White House on Twitter - http://twitter.com/thewhitehouse - was similarly squatted and fooling over 15,000 followers. I don't know the process of discovery; but if you look at that feed now, you can see Twitter management stepped in and forcibly changed the bio to reflect its unofficial status. As for my story, I've tweeted as @ariherzog since the summer of 2008. But because I blog at ariwriter.com and knowing I'd previously tweeted as @ariwriter in 2007, I have a message there pointing would-be followers to @ariherzog. In that sense, I squatted myself. This is a fascinating account, pun not intended, Carl, and you provide excellent advice!

And to think earlier this week I learned that The White House on Twitter – http://twitter.com/thewhitehouse – was similarly squatted and fooling over 15,000 followers. I don’t know the process of discovery; but if you look at that feed now, you can see Twitter management stepped in and forcibly changed the bio to reflect its unofficial status.

As for my story, I’ve tweeted as @ariherzog since the summer of 2008. But because I blog at ariwriter.com and knowing I’d previously tweeted as @ariwriter in 2007, I have a message there pointing would-be followers to @ariherzog. In that sense, I squatted myself.

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