this has been mentioned before on the mailing list -- the most up to date information is on our wiki
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#HowcanIreclaimaninactiveTwitteraccountformyprojectorapplication On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Michael <magic6...@gmail.com> wrote: > I saw a post from 2008 about getting unused accounts released to > developers and was wondering if the method is still just to email Alex > Payne or if there is a streamlined method now? The account i am trying > to get was only used for 2 days with 5 tweets back in august 2009 and > i tried emailing the account holder back in December about buying or > trading the name and got no response. > > Thanks for any help. > Mike > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
