Monday, May 24, 2010

Give Me Back My Name

Dear Person Who Took My Name on Twitter and Linked to a Porn Site,

Yes, I know, I was stupid. I should have taken @LuisvonAhn years ago when I first signed up. But you have to understand, I didn't know Twitter would become such a big thing. I was just checking out reCAPTCHA on their registration page, and typed the first username that came to mind: @freakbit. (No comments, please.) Now, Twitter is big, I wanna start using it, and I am stuck with @freakbit. Would you consider giving the name back?

Sincerely,
The real Luis von Ahn

PS: Are you also the person who has the fake Luis von Ahn on Facebook? If so, please give that back as well! I won't accept your friend request.

Update: People from both Twitter and Facebook were super helpful, so now I have @LuisvonAhn as my Twitter name, and there is no more FB impersonator :)

11 comments:

  1. If I were them, I'd try to sell it to you.

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  2. I bet if you contact Twitter they will give you the account.

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  3. please send a tweet to @delbius stating that you want that username. . They surely gonna issue a ticket and solve in 24 hrs

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  4. Technically speaking, they can't give BACK to you something you never had.

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  5. That anonymous is a wild guy... LOL!

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  6. Jealous lowly professorMay 25, 2010 at 11:00 AM

    When you picked biglou as a username for a lowly grad student, did you expect that *you* would be such a big thing? :-)

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  8. Someone: "Gee Luis, why do you want that account?"
    Luis: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb-dhzSPFiU"

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  9. You should totally post this back onto Quora.

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