It turns out they respond very quickly. Unforunately its with an email that includes:
"Twitter is not currently releasing inactive user names. Unless your user name issue involves Terms of Service violations, you'll have to wait until all inactive user names are released. We're working on a better long term solution for this, and we should have more news soon." Ahh well. :) On Jun 24, 8:15 pm, Matt Sanford <m...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Email usern...@twitter.com (literally 'username', not the name > you want). It usually takes some time since, as you can imagine, it's > a lower priority than spam and other issues. > > Thanks; > – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford > Twitter Dev > > On Jun 24, 2009, at 1:54 PM, kprobe wrote: > > > > > > > Doug has been just talking about spammers related to acct suspensions > > and just gave the rules for releasing a screen name. Who do we contact > > @twitter to get a dormant screen name released? > > Mark