Taking over an existing Twitter account?
 

Has anyone successfully done so? The username "jayvis" is taken on twitter... Not really a big deal but it would be nice to have for myself. Of course I don't have a trademark on it but is there anyway to take this account over despite that? It seems dormant, do I even have the slightest chance?

Thanks for the help and I'm sure the hate lol. :pimp

u need to select another one, like in youtube

Right I obviously understand that, I just figured there may be a small chance at taking this one over in case anyone here has done something similar...

Bump bump GFY moves too fast!

If the twitter account is inactive for more then 6 months then you have a chance :)

You can read more about it in this article. I cant post links yet so delete the * signs to get the link

h*t*tp:/*/*fusible.com/2011/06/how-to-get-a-twitter-username-thats-already-taken-hint-its-easy-i-got-mine/

if its even a bit active, HARD NEXT TO NONE

Thanks a bunch for that link buddy! :winkwink:

u can report it if it´s a fake, got a friend got his twitter acct deleted

Have 10 friends flag it for something....

You da man! I did exactly that, I've got my fingers crossed now...

just wait for it to drop back to the available names if its not used for so long

I hope you get it and i am glad i could help :) Good luck!

Just wanted to give you guys a quick update... thanks to GFY's awesome advice I was able to overtake the account I wanted! I could not be any happier! Thanks. :thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

ive had some decent luck getting twitter names that are considered inactive

use this form : http://twitter.zendesk.com/requests/new

in the drop down field go to inactive account

and put in the other fields about how it is a name you use online and show some sort of proof that it is of use to you and they will kill the account and it will be open for registration.

im not so sure about how true the inactive for 6 months that was stated in this thread is.

The only names that i could ever get released had last post dates of 2007 anything after that was never responded to and if the account never hada post it was never responded to aswell