Damn Twitter Squatters

[Bobby_M]

I'll admit it, I've been dragging my feet on facebook and twitter and all the other hip social media sites when it comes to brewhardware.com

I should have had the @brewhardware a lot time ago or at least 3 years ago when I registered the brewhardware domain.

There's this guy that created @brewhardware for a coffee brewing consultant company but he's got no followers (except me and one other guy who thinks it's my account). He's actively using @ecobrew and @ecobrewer.

I've emailed him and politely asked for the account. I've tweeted ecobrew asking the same. No response. Do I have any options?

 

[tflew]

Try working it out through twitter. https://support.twitter.com/forms/impersonation

check the box that you are being impersonated then keep checking the applicable boxes. If you trademarked the name it would be a little bit easier...

but it is technically against the rules to buy or sell a twitter handle.

heres a link to a bit more info.

http://support.twitter.com/articles/18370-username-squatting-policy#

 

[241]

lol someone who doesn't tweet also has @Bobby_M

could do Brewhardwarecom

 

[tre9er]

I'll admit it, I've been dragging my feet on facebook and twitter and all the other hip social media sites when it comes to brewhardware.com

I should have had the @brewhardware a lot time ago or at least 3 years ago when I registered the brewhardware domain.

There's this guy that created @brewhardware for a coffee brewing consultant company but he's got no followers (except me and one other guy who thinks it's my account). He's actively using @ecobrew and @ecobrewer.

I've emailed him and politely asked for the account. I've tweeted ecobrew asking the same. No response. Do I have any options?

What about BrewHW, BrwHardware, Brew_Hardware, etc?

 

[Bobby_M]

I did grab brewhardwarecom but it's just the principal of the thing. I have the domain, it's the name of my company too. He's not using it. It's a common courtesy.

 

[241]

Bobby did you visit his their website? http://www.highplainsbeverage.com

Lots of contact info available there. LinkedIn profile for the owner is listed there too, might be a good way to reach him. Seems they have other twitter accounts that are stagnant too...