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u-Bob 09-27-2011 04:15 AM

The Guy Behind The Qwikster Twitter Account Realizes What He Has, Wants A Mountain Of Cash
 
The Guy Behind The Qwikster Twitter Account Realizes What He Has, Wants A Mountain Of Cash

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/19/the...ntain-of-cash/

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Last night, Jason went to bed a normal man, with a normal Twitter account (albeit one with a weed-smoking Elmo as the avatar), and a few dozen followers.

This morning, Jason woke up to an inbox full of messages, thousands of new followers, and wants to sell his account for many thousands of dollars.

As we chronicled last night, Netflix made a rather fundamental mistake in launching their new spin-off brand, Qwikster: they didn?t make sure they had the name locked down on all of the big social networks before making the announcement. As Jason?s luck had it, he had long owned the @Qwikster handle. He?s willing to part with it ? he just wants to make sure he?ll ?be making bank? first.

BIGTYMER 09-27-2011 04:16 AM

Good for him! He's going to get a nice payday!

greg80 09-27-2011 04:20 AM

old news, but good for him

pornguy 09-27-2011 04:35 AM

I hope he gets paid well.

kane 09-27-2011 04:41 AM

I wonder if he will go public with how much he ends up getting for it or if Netflix will make him sign a confidentiality agreement.

This kind of reminds me of when Conan O'Brien joined twitter. he got a ton of followers and then he randomly chose some girl to follow. She had like 12 followers before (all friends and family) and overnight she got thousands of followers. The cool thing was she was young like 20 years old and about to get married. She had big name companies offering to make her a custom gown and others giving her a honeymoon trip. She ended up getting most of her wedding paid for and got a kick ass first class honeymoon just for mentioning the people that were giving her these things.

InfoGuy 09-27-2011 05:53 AM

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Selling user names: Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Twitter, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose, where "Services" is defined as follows: Your use of Twitter’s products, services and web sites (referred to collectively as the “Services” in this document and excluding any services provided to you by Twitter under a separate written agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Twitter.
Twitter Rules

drmadcat 09-27-2011 06:18 AM

you can not sell a twitter account the way they get around that is they say they will hire the person thats owns the domain and the twitter account is uded by the hired person

Chris 09-27-2011 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by InfoGuy (Post 18454466)

ive sold a few twitter names in the past and ive always gotten permission to do so just to cover my ass

with this name - if he made the name before netflix trademarked or whatever they did with the qwikster name he will able to sell it to them - if not netflix can just submit for trademark violation and get it free

the guy should just take the first offer they give him and not be a douche because they will win it in the long run

BareBacked 09-27-2011 07:25 AM

Twitter will just give it the the rightful owner

BareBacked 09-27-2011 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by BareBacked (Post 18454577)
Twitter will just give it the the rightful owner

ok maybe they wont now I read it .

DamianJ 09-27-2011 07:29 AM

Welcome to last week.

Nicky 09-27-2011 07:36 AM

How much are mainstream twitter accounts really worth? Anybody have an example of money they have made from linking from It or selling It?

u-Bob 09-27-2011 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by InfoGuy (Post 18454466)

Twitter doesn't really enforce that rule. example: @israel

blackmonsters 09-27-2011 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by DamianJ (Post 18454589)
Welcome to last week.

You wouldn't know it was old news if you had a life outside of GFY.

:1orglaugh


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