Basically, Michael, the process appears to be: If you don't have a US-registered trademark for your app, you're out of luck, no exceptions.
If you do, you file a trademark complaint. (If I'm wrong on the above, please feel free to correct me.) Aral On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > 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 >