Some ass has the Twitter username I want. How can I ruin him?

http://twitter.com/#!/BisonHero

Seriously, 2 tweets from a year ago, and barely following anyone? What a fucker.

I looked around, and I don't think Twitter will shut down inactive accounts, right? Any other suggestions to somehow free up that username?

Alternately, how do you guys deal with it when you go to sign up on a site and somebody has your preferred username? Any clever suggestions to slightly alter my username? I refuse to use BisonHero1 or BisonHero2012 or anything of the sort, because I'm not twelve years old.

TheRealBisonHero(FuckThatOtherAsshole)

(preferably with copious amounts of "xXx")

Move on like a regular human being?

buffalohero? alternatively use a umlauted o

@believer258 said:

TheRealBisonHero(FuckThatOtherAsshole)

(preferably with copious amounts of "xXx")

This, verbatim.

@ImmortalSaiyan said:

@believer258 said:

TheRealBisonHero(FuckThatOtherAsshole)

(preferably with copious amounts of "xXx")

This, verbatim.

I like where you guys are going with this.

@BisonHero: My usename was taken on youtube, so I go by 'itsmemagzine' there.

@Phatmac said:

Move on like a regular human being?

god damn it...i was going to say this

Send him/her spam mail!

"because I'm not twelve years old"

looks at topic title again, scratches head.

Like, I dunno. Use your real name?

@BisonHero: he has a different name on his profile Suyi Hou, make an account under that name and then start tweeting his friends with it and get them to ask him if he'd like to trade accounts with you.

@Phatmac said:

Move on like a regular human being?

Yeah...I thought he said he wasn't twelve years old.

@BisonHero said:

@ImmortalSaiyan said:

@believer258 said:

TheRealBisonHero(FuckThatOtherAsshole)

(preferably with copious amounts of "xXx")

This, verbatim.

I like where you guys are going with this.

Yes, TheRealBisonHero would be great.

Yeah, I just add "the" to the name. Like "TheTobbRobb".

Though I've only had to do that once, because I stole the name, from myself.

TheBisonHero sounds alright I think.

@Napalm said:

@BisonHero said:

@ImmortalSaiyan said:

@believer258 said:

TheRealBisonHero(FuckThatOtherAsshole)

(preferably with copious amounts of "xXx")

This, verbatim.

I like where you guys are going with this.

Yes, TheRealBisonHero would be great.

And xXxTheRealBisonHeroxXx is even better!!!

@BisonHero said:

http://twitter.com/#!/BisonHero

Seriously, 2 tweets from a year ago, and barely following anyone? What a fucker.

I looked around, and I don't think Twitter will shut down inactive accounts, right? Any other suggestions to somehow free up that username?

Alternately, how do you guys deal with it when you go to sign up on a site and somebody has your preferred username? Any clever suggestions to slightly alter my username? I refuse to use BisonHero1 or BisonHero2012 or anything of the sort, because I'm not twelve years old.

Maybe he never disabled emails to indicate new followers. You could devise some plan to give him a sudden burst of followers and ruin the guys day.... Seems kinda mean though =o

If even GB have to use TheRealGiantbomb on youtube, I think you can learn to live with it.

How old are you then?

Also, m/f?

Also, where do you live?

Also, what are you wearing?

I'm BisonHero.

Dont be a dick, brah. Ive just been in space

Creeper status: Engaged

He isn't following anyone famous? No wonder he stopped using twitter. He completely missed the point of why it is interesting!

Kill his family, cut them up, and mail them to him, 140 pieces at a time.

Oh man that must be a real bummer. How else are you going to differentiate from people on the internet? Your life must really suck.

SSJBisonHero420.

He's from Fargo, ND. It would take years to get a message to him. Just give up.

Tell the police he touched your private parts?

By private parts I obviously mean your mouse, keyboard and headset.

Also, I find your handle will be stolen quite often on the internet by somebody who isn't using it anymore. I was just trying to change up my portfolio address, but somebody who clearly aren't using the names anymore, have already taken them.

I swear half the accounts on Twitter feature 2 or 3 tweets one of which is the person talking about how they just started tweeting.

That's why I locked down my name a while ago, though I created my username from nothingness, so its never taken. Its so liberating to know your name is always available.
 
Also, I made a second twitter account with my real name, so when I get famous, I can use that.

Make a pointless thread about it?

@FuckThatOtherBisonHero

There you go.

Quit whining over a username.

Step 1: Send him threatening letters.

Step 2: Spread nasty rumors about him to all of his friends.

Step 3: Set fire to his dog. If he doesn't have a dog, buy him one, THEN set fire to it.

Step 4: Carve your demands (in this case, use of his twitter handle) onto his chest.

(optional) Step 5: If he doesn't give it up, drug him, remove his heart, hook him up to one of those old-school artificial hearts that has to be plugged into the wall, and hold his real heart ransom. I have found that this works shockingly well.

@NotBisonHero

@seanfoster said:

I swear half the accounts on Twitter feature 2 or 3 tweets one of which is the person talking about how they just started tweeting.

The study I remember is a couple years old now, but the stats were that, yes, the vast majority of Twitter users posted once or twice and then never came back. Not sure if it's still the case, but probably not far off. They said like 10% of Twitter's users make up 90% of its tweets.

What you need to do is add you birth year at the end....this is how you know itz legit

http://twitter.com/#!/BisonHero

Seriously, 2 tweets from a year ago, and barely following anyone? What a fucker.

I looked around, and I don't think Twitter will shut down inactive accounts, right? Any other suggestions to somehow free up that username?

Alternately, how do you guys deal with it when you go to sign up on a site and somebody has your preferred username? Any clever suggestions to slightly alter my username? I refuse to use BisonHero1 or BisonHero2012 or anything of the sort, because I'm not twelve years old.

@BisonHero said:

http://twitter.com/#!/BisonHero

Seriously, 2 tweets from a year ago, and barely following anyone? What a fucker.

I looked around, and I don't think Twitter will shut down inactive accounts, right? Any other suggestions to somehow free up that username?

Alternately, how do you guys deal with it when you go to sign up on a site and somebody has your preferred username? Any clever suggestions to slightly alter my username? I refuse to use BisonHero1 or BisonHero2012 or anything of the sort, because I'm not twelve years old.

Yet you are acting like a 12 year old, weird.

Nobody cares what you have to say so your twitter name is irrelevant.

This thread seems sharply divided between people who have no sense of humour, and awesome people who came up with some pretty good goofs. You know who you are.

Have you tried http://blog.smoothfriction.nl/archive/2011/01/11/claiming-an-unused-twitter-account.aspx

You just need variants on your username. Mine's MideonNViscera, but I generally try for just Mideon first. I can also be MideonV. On Yahoo Messenger (haha why did I ever have that?) I had to be MideonNV. Of course it's easier with mine because it's all derived from my EQ character, Mideon N'Viscera. That's my suggestion though, because you'll probably have this issue again sometime.

I've only had the problem of making an account and forgetting the password, after which had to make a new account.

@MayorFeedback said:

@seanfoster said:

I swear half the accounts on Twitter feature 2 or 3 tweets one of which is the person talking about how they just started tweeting.

The study I remember is a couple years old now, but the stats were that, yes, the vast majority of Twitter users posted once or twice and then never came back. Not sure if it's still the case, but probably not far off. They said like 10% of Twitter's users make up 90% of its tweets.

I reckon if you narrow it down to @willsmith and@Ryan you get two dudes making up 80% of the tweets.

B1s0NH3r0

Also you're boned at the moment, there's no official way to do it: https://support.twitter.com/articles/15362-inactive-usernames-policy

Just make your name "I B1SoNhEro I "

If this were on Yahoo Answers I'd send it in to MBMBAM.

It's too bad it's already taken and that the guy doesn't even use it. If he doesn't buck, consider BisonHer0. Really, an ever so-slightly more elongated "o" is no different in this context. And of course, make sure you're the real deal.