Dude lost his $50,000 Twitter handle!

Essendon

Trending in Twitter today:

https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd

Interesting to say the least!!

--chris--

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Jesus, that was easy on the attackers part.

MSP-IT

Sounds like it's time to do some hardening of my own.

unfbilly11

I might have missed it in the article, but why couldn't there be any sort of legal action against the attacker? He obviously has emails from someone who appears to be blackmailing him. Is there really no way to find out who this guy is?

colemic

I would think that if he presented his case to Twitter, he could have a decent shot at them handing the handle back to him. Surprised he hasn't taken it up with them, honestly. I would be screaming at that point to anyone who would listen.

YFZblu

Extremely odd for the attacker to spell out exactly how it all happened - I wouldn't be surprised to later find out this 'attack' was staged for the blog. It just doesn't feel right.

unfbilly11

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This was my initial thought too.

olaHalo

I dont have a twitter or know much about it.
What made his account worth 50k?

Essendon

It looks like people offered $50k for him to give up his username, which was @N. Yep, just the letter N.

olaHalo

Oh so its just a unique name that he was offered up to 50k for?
I see.
I thought it had money linked to it or something

pamccabe

If anyone offered me up to 50,000 for any of my online names I would take it in a second. It sounds like he never even used it. I get the point that it was unique in some way, but it's only worth as much as someone offers you. The day will come when Twitter isn't around and no one will care about the handle N.

Asif Dasl

@N has got his twitter handle back!

https://twitter.com/N

YFZblu

That just makes me think it was staged even more.

Asif Dasl

If nothing else it got me to register my domain with someone other than GoDaddy! Not that it would likely happen to me but *just* in case!

GLaD0S11

I don't know what is worse... The fact that someone actually wanted to pay $50,000 for an internet username, or the fact that this guy turned it down. There's very few things in the world that I wouldn't give up for $50,000.