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Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, [5] [6] an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers.
A pun of the portmanteau of Phil Lester's and Daniel Howell's names—"Phan"—and the word "fandom". [91] Danny Gonzalez: Greg YouTuber In one of his videos, Gonzalez looked up "Strong Names" on Google and found the name "Gregory," which he shortened to Greg, and declared it a "good, strong name." [92] DAY6: My Day Music group [93] Deadsy: Leigons
After an incident in which a lawsuit was launched over a fake account Twitter introduced "Verified Accounts." [36] Also in 2009 Ashton Kutcher's Twitter account became the first one with a million followers. [37] Twitter played a major role in the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests. [37]
So you default to one of the basic suggested handles with your first and last name, and maybe a number or something...until one day it hits you.Damn, that would've been the perfect Twitter handle ...
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Twitter briefly tested a feature in 2022 that allowed users to set the current status—codenamed "vibe"— for a tweet or account, from a small set of emoji-phrase combinations. It would allow the user to either tag per-tweet, or on the profile level with it showing on tweets and the profile.
The name Twitter (spelled twttr at the time and using a green site logo [5]) is chosen for the service. The idea for the name is attributed to Noah Glass. [6] [7] 2006: March 21: Creation: Twitter is officially set up and Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet. [8] 2006: July 15: Media coverage
As the queries were attributed by AOL to particular user numerically identified accounts, an individual could be identified and matched to their account and search history. [1] The New York Times was able to locate an individual from the released and anonymized search records by cross referencing them with phonebook listings. [2]