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Old 09-27-2011, 04:15 AM   #1
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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

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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.
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Old 09-27-2011, 04:16 AM   #2
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Good for him! He's going to get a nice payday!
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Old 09-27-2011, 04:20 AM   #3
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old news, but good for him
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Old 09-27-2011, 04:35 AM   #4
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I hope he gets paid well.
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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.
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Old 09-27-2011, 05:53 AM   #6
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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.
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Old 09-27-2011, 06:18 AM   #7
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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
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Old 09-27-2011, 06:45 AM   #8
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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
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Twitter will just give it the the rightful owner
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Old 09-27-2011, 07:26 AM   #10
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Twitter will just give it the the rightful owner
ok maybe they wont now I read it .
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How much are mainstream twitter accounts really worth? Anybody have an example of money they have made from linking from It or selling It?
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Twitter doesn't really enforce that rule. example: @israel
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