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thanks for this dom..
i guess this shows that perhaps we should all be registering derivatives of our URLs aswell as personal twitter accounts if we want to keep them safe?
this page on twitter might also help, they seem to be pretty proactive in removing folks who squat on other folks urls and company names etc http://help.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries
i guess if you can prove you own the domain, you can get the user who registered it “for you” blocked or at least let the twitter folks know about it
i guess this wouldn’t be a new thing though, i presume other sites like facebook and myspace have had similar probs in the past?
You shoukld beable to get it back – Same happened to PokerChannel/heavenAffiliates and they contacted Twitter and got it back within a week or two
I started procedures to get it back…. just really annoying. I recommend everyone start a twitter account for their domains, or one day you’ll find someone capitalizing off your hard work.
sorry to hear that happened to you too Dom
after reading your post i went and signed up for twitter with username bonusparadisein these days it seems we all spend more time to protect our stuff than building sites,
this is the sense of our biz now?wonder what all comes next
I personally think that creating a twitter profile with your domain as the username (or a derivative of) is now a must…
Twitter’s popularity is continuing to grow and I’m interested in watching how valuable a tool it becomes for affiliates.. let’s not forget that some of the best marketing is word of mouth marketing and that’s exactly what twitter is
@Dominique 202621 wrote:
I started procedures to get it back…. just really annoying. I recommend everyone start a twitter account for their domains, or one day you’ll find someone capitalizing off your hard work.
Sad, but I guess we have chase every new fad and grab our domain identities ourselves before some ‘putz’ does it.
:Cry:
Well, I am happy to report that Twitter did the right thing and returned the domain to me http://twitter.com/GamesandCasino
Now I have a proper page at http://twitter.com/DominiqueGG and the puny one under the real domain name.
I doubt there is a way to merge these, but I guess I can now rename the active one and delete the inactive one… may need Twitter to help there.
I’m glad to hear you got this sorted out in your favor.
It seems that twitter is pretty good about stepping in to make sure people are not squatting names or pretending to be someone they aren’t. I think that has a lot to do with why they are so big. I don’t know what you can do about changing the names, but in the mean time I”ll follow both just in case.
One thing you could do is:
1 – Login to the gamesandcasino one and change the user name – this also corresponds with the /xxxxx
2 – Then at the same time change the DominiqueGG to gamesandcasino
3 – Then change back the original gamesandcasino one in point 1 to DominiqueGG and make a post there that all your tweets will now be at http://www.twitter.com/gamesandcasinoDoes that make any sense?
Haha, it makes perfect sense, convoluted as it is.
I will fiddle with it when I get a moment… Thanks. :hattip:
Wheretobet.com’s twitter account is http://www.twitter.com/wheretobet
