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Brian Hoff's wife, Kathleen, had her Instagram username stolen. It's now owned by a Facebook employee(medium.com)

9 years ago from Jonathan Suh, Designer at Planning Center

  • Braden HammBraden Hamm, 9 years ago

    I wish that's how it worked. Someone was squatting on a Twitter username for a domain I own and they only tweeted once in 2009. Multiple attempts to get it, but to no avail.

    Just noticed a it's become active about a month ago :(

    2 points
    • Artem TitoulenkoArtem Titoulenko, 9 years ago

      The killer for squatted twitter handles is phone login. If those credentials are entered in the iOS settings, iOS will fetch new tokens on a regular basis, keeping the account "active". As an employee told me: "just because you cannot see activity, doesn't mean they're inactive to the system".

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