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Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

Jack Leblond — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:17:59 -0000

It does seem that if this becomes even slightly popular (and since it's here it probably will), it will result in squatters grabbing every name they think might make them a buck. Hopefully Twitter will stand by its TOS and squash the squatters before they get too far.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

TwitrFic — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:06:47 -0000

this is false. you can sign up with twitter and put anything into email box as long as it is an @whatever.com

there is no email verification

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

chris — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:18:25 -0000

I had registered a few user names on tweexchange.com, i logged on to one of the twitter accounts today, only to see that it has been "suspended due to suspicious activity!"...well well, i guess twitter won't let users make some cash by "consulting" their accounts! WHAT THE FUCK?

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

TheJakeasaur — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:38:53 -0000

Im interested!

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

Chris — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:22:57 -0000

Hi There! if ur interested, i got some i would love to "consult" over with you...HEEHEE! no but seriously i do have atleast 3 good ones ;-)

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

Chris — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:09:19 -0000

WOW! i have some already! anyone know how i can market them and eventually get the "consultancy fee?". I have like 3 really good ones. So anyone who would like to "consult" with me simply reply here!

Peace out!

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

Wim — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:52:49 -0000

If you want crapy code it's indeed possible to develop this site for $150.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

eric susch — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:01:26 -0000

I disagree. The cnnbrk thing was a one on one thing between one person and cnn. That's different than having a marketplace where everyone is doing it.

Also, Twitter is a new type of service. There are going to be mis-steps along the way. Just because something against the TOS happens once doesn't mean "now everyone can do it."

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

Matthew Mazur — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:42:27 -0000

My site offers a similar service:

Domain Pigeon.com

Except we don't try to sell names (it's not a market place like this site). We've got a whole bunch (over 80K) available domain and Twitter names which you're all free to explore and register as you please. Or, if its your thing, sell it on Tweexchange :)

Matt

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

Jack Leblond — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:12:10 -0000

Take care choosing you name, and pick it soon - then you won't have to buy one.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

Susan — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:49:45 -0000

Who cares of this twitter crap! it's is all hype! Trust me twitter will fade soon! people will get tired following people around. What will never fade will be text messaging which still way better than twitter. At least text messaging no one can follow me hahaha... I prefer it that way. Maybe this will give a shout out to all those stalkers using twitter. ha ha ha...

Read this article why twitter will fade. Also selling twitter name will not make you rich and there will be no profit in this. Once twitter fades who will want to buy twitter names?

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Is quitting Twitter more popular than re-tweeting?

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Twitter quitters outnumber the flock of habitual tweeters on the rapidly growing online communications service, a new study suggests.

Most people aren't joining the Web site's jumble of conversations for very long. More than 60 percent of Twitter's U.S. users don't return a month later, based on an analysis of traffic trends unveiled this week by the research firm Nielsen Online.

The lackluster retention rate of 40 percent suggests many people don't see the point in spending time on Twitter, which allows anyone to write about what they're doing or what's on their mind in messages, or "tweets," limited to 140 characters.

While some of the chirping is entertaining, thought-provoking or just downright helpful, much of the chatter can be quite banal as people update when they are eating, drinking and even puking.

Nielsen's conclusions initially were ridiculed by some Twitter fans because the research firm didn't attempt to account for applications on mobile phones and other devices that bypass the Web site.

That limitation raised the possibility that Nielsen was wrongly characterizing some active users as Twitter quitters, prompting the firm to measure the alternative methods for tweeting. Nielsen still found about 60 percent of Twitter users aren't sticking around.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about Nielsen Online's findings.

Despite the defectors, Twitter is amassing an impressive audience. In March, the San Francisco-based service attracted a U.S. audience of 13.9 million, up from roughly 500,000 users at the same juncture last year, Nielsen said.

Given that Twitter received an endorsement from Oprah Winfrey on her television show in April, that month's numbers will likely be substantially higher.

A high turnover rate isn't unusual when a young Web site starts to catch on, but 3-year-old Twitter is losing users at a quicker pace than Facebook and MySpace did at comparable stages of their growth, according to Nielsen.

Both Facebook and MySpace were retaining about 60 percent a few years ago and now are holding on to about 70 percent of their traffic.

"Twitter has enjoyed a nice ride over the last few months, but it will not be able to sustain its meteoric rise without establishing a higher level of user loyalty," David Martin, Nielsen Online's vice president of primary research, wrote in a blog posting.

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Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

Anand — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:29:45 -0000

He paid $1000 to get this site developed??? I'd have got it done for less than $150 through GetAFreelancer..

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

Anand — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:27:14 -0000

What? He paid $1000 to get this site developed!??

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

digideth — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:27:19 -0000

this guy and his site will be shutdown along any username that gets listed on it.

Its only a matter of time before this all goes down.

If twitter isn't making money on the names why the hell should anyone else be able to.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

faeriewing — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:46:07 -0000

Well, I guess this is good news for Sean Penn! Maybe when he catches up to the craze someone can sell him his name so he doesn't have to have a meltdown like he did when another Sean Penn was registered with the email he wanted.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

snarky — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:44:11 -0000

The term is not "Social Domains", what we are talking about IS the term "Namespace".

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

snarky — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:43:07 -0000

Learn English, then come back in a few YEARS.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

snarky — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:41:55 -0000

twitter is no longer dropping accounts for mere inactivity. And, I just found out from a little birdie, that the use of '_' for usernames is being phased out anyway, so using the undersocre as a way of squatting might be moot.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

snarky — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:38:49 -0000

Well, hopefully, thanks to a new system on Yahoo and google, creation of email accounts is now limited to 2 per IP address per day. And since twitter requires (smart) a separate email account for each and every twitter account application (the email is actually required, it didnt used to be - dumb), this should make squatting much more difficult.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

dryan — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:31:46 -0000

I went to their Twitter page to send them a message that their typeaheadfind js was implemented incorrectly, only to find their account has been suspended by Twitter.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

snarky — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:27:30 -0000

VERY distinctively different: Twitter does not sell usernames - YET, and you have no choice of domain (although, I wouldn't mind having snarky.twitter.com instead of twitter.com/snarky - it just looks cooler, but as twitter is not run on Linux, that wont happen - YET). Godaddy sells domain names - they do not sell usernames.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

snarky — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:21:15 -0000

That's correct, even as a person, you prove you are So-and-so legally to twitter, and they give you rights to that name and its variations - underscores are ignored for futures signups (they have to be, as currently with unclaimed usernames, you can have smith_john, john_smith, _john_smith____ , etc. ) as should be the case anyway, google does this - where you CAN have an '_' or '.' or '-' DISPLAY as part of the username, but anyone can enter the name with or without those and they will still be able to send you an email (and you will still be able to sign in to your account).

And, as mentioned below, selling twitter names is against the TOS (the holder of one name may not sell, lease or otherwise receive compensation for a username). Oddly, but a good thing, personal 'squatting (on one's own usernames and variations) IS allowed.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

snarky — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:14:15 -0000

And of course, we would need to be assured - beyond credulity - that tweetxchange themselves are not hoarding twitter names under other pseudonyms, as well. I'm not convinced they aren't, yet. Very, very fishy.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

Claudia — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:45:53 -0000

That's forbidden in the Twitter TOS.

Re: Sell Your Twitter Name for Cash with Tweexchange

MLDina — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:45:11 -0000

I can't see this taking off unless Twitter comes up with a monetization method. What's the point of having the name currently, other than for corporations, who can have Twitter give them the name that's already taken.