[aimhigh]

Scary!

[a fool in paradise]

Saw an article about such theft many years ago (may have even been the late 90s or early 2000s). Courts ruled it isn’t property (no matter what financial values have been offered or transferred).

Also the fraud aspect doesn’t seem to impress the men in black dresses.

The public needs their own lobbyists. Legislators don’t work for us, apparently.

[JoeProBono]

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Someone needs to explain to us old geezers (you know...late boomer generation) exactly why the @N moniker is so valuable.

[thefactor]

Haha. The @N twitter account was getting hammered by replies and has deleted all of their tweets. Just checked it. They had 4 tweets. I refreshed the page and they had zero.

[GeronL]

That is messed up

[alancarp]

‘extorted’ sounds like the wrong word: outright theft via a predatory hack is more like it. Twitter ought to be able to (a) recognize the rightful owner; and (b) restore it. Publicity like this doesn’t help them.

[piroque]

Yes its scary ,,,, just had an E-mail spam from geico ins. that I couldn't delete . Had to move a few others around then delete , never could get it marked as spam.

And I've never had an account with them . hmmmmm.

[Fireone]

I got one thing to say to someone offering $50,000. for a screen name....Show me the money!

[discostu]

If somebody offered 50 grand for your twitter handle the correct answer is YES. Everything that happened after then is just further mistakes.

[McGruff]

Ok, who got the other 25 letters of the alphabet?

[DesertRhino]

Seems like it would be reasonable to locate whoever begins using that stolen twitter name, and kill them. I would vote to acquit.

[DesertRhino]

As for finding the N twitter name. Too bad we don’t have an agency that could track the use of it in real time. Or stop hacks of Target, etc etc.

They are too busy looking for political opponents of Obama.