buying a twitter account - tactics?
 

someone sitting on a twitter acct i'd like to purchase. they've made no tweets and only followed by/following 1-2 people. whats the best way to approach them about buying?

random & anonymous?
pose like a big baller?
trademark threats? :1orglaugh

let me know your success (or failure) stories

:thumbsup to the top for some answers people

you want to buy a twitter account with no followers ?

if its someone famous you could buy it and then have twitter take it from you

i want it for the name

Be honest and offer a few bucks.

yeah offer them a few bucks for it. if not make a name really similar.

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screw Twitter. G+ is a lot better

If it is a term you own the trademark for you can submit a ticket and twitter may give you the account. If it is not and you just want to buy the account do it discretely as it is against twitter's TOS to buy/sell accounts. Twitter does plan to delete inactive accounts at some point but has not begun to yet.

Change your new and get a free Twitter account ...

against tos to do it

:1orglaugh :error

if i had the registered trademark it would be a slam dunk - done that before. what this is is a case where i have "term.com" and this person has registered "@term" but they haven't used it much if at all

I guess you have not tried G+ yet. It is like Twitter on steroids. :2 cents:

anytime '...on steroids' is used to describe something new, i cringe a little

i've seen it, it's too different to say it's 'twitter on whatever', and it's too new/empty to use it in lieu of twitter

Yeah twitter has been saying it would delete accounts for ages, but I've been watching accounts that are 2 years inactive and still have not been deleted.

just add a _ to the name.

Well, all I can say is that after a couple years on Twitter I only have a little over 100 followers. After a few months on G+ (with the same amount of effort) I have 1300+ followers.

I still say G+ > Twitter.

i don't think you get it.

if they dont use twitter, doubt they'll see your @ msg to them + u can't dm them unless they follow you. good luck even getting in contact tbh.

duly noted. i'm not writing off G+ and likely i'll use em both, but right now twitter is the beast so i'll worry about G+ afterwards

very true and a hurdle i wondered about as well but there are ways around that (albeit not direct).

twitter username acquired!

cost: $0.00

many thanks to Alex @ NALEM for the spot on tip!

:thumbsup :pimp :thumbsup :pimp

Irony - I used the same process again very recently for another @_________ and I am still waiting to hear back from them.

how did you get in touch with them?

I don't follow. What was the tip?

And it's sfw content and sucks ass.