Ha! Thanks, that seemed to work :) I'm so used to substituting 'username' for my own username, or the username in question pertaining to whatever current context that I assumed I had to email the username I was after and not, literally as Stuart says, 'username'.
Cheers! On Jan 18, 1:47 am, Stuart <stut...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/1/17 James Chivers <jchiv...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Thank you both for your uber rapid responses; much appreciated. > > > I've dropped an email to the usernameiwouldl...@twitter.com but > > unfortunately I got a 550 back. > > > It looks like twitter.com is using Google apps for their email, and so > > they might not have set up a catchall mechanism to process invalid > > email addresses. Maybe in the past they were using a different mta and > > thus had a different setup (to support such emails), but it doesn't > > look like it now. > > You need to email usern...@twitter.com literally, not usernameyouwouldl...@. > > -Stuart > > --http://stut.net/
