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		tshaddox on Jan 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username So what? If Twitter returned control of a handle if someone could prove that they had recently controlled the handle, that would quickly make the handles market dry up.

Herald_MJ on Jan 29, 2014 [–]

Twitter has no interest in there being a handles market. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if their T&Cs expressly forbids it.

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