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This is in response to an email from Twitter rejecting The Guild's request to acquire the inactive @Guild Twitter handle.
Hello,
The Guild would like to acquire this username. First off, I will provide a quick example of this happening to someone else:
The Industry (@industry, http://theindustry.cc) acquired the username @industry without actually being impersonated. They merely had friends at Twitter and those friends gave them the inactive username (it was already in use, but the user hadn't Tweeted for some time). If you allow that for one company, that does not even own industry.com, how is it fair to not allow that treatment for The Guild?
Secondly, the account @guild, the one we are trying to acquire, has not been active since December 17th, 2012 — that's six (6) months and three (3) days (including today), which is a month and three days more than the suggested five months of inactivity required in order to have an account regarded as inactive.
Third, all of @guild's Tweets are spam. The English Tweets are all spam links and referral links. I have taken the liberty of translating the Japanese Tweets for you so you can see that the user does not deserve to have the account handle, and that it should be relinquished to us here at The Guild:
"twitterの面白さがイマイチわからないなぁ。on August 2nd 2009" -> "Hey I do not understand a fun of twitter."
"パン食べたい。on August 1st 2008" -> "I want to eat bread."
Really, he wants to eat bread? And he does not understand the fun of Twitter?
From those two Tweets alone, as well as other spam Tweets such as, "Raspberry Ketones and Fat Lose http://www.celticoffroad.com/butterbankkevinanderson/ ..." and, "This thing changed my life! Discover how http://www.superqpon.com/crowdbook/43anthonyroberts/ …", you can see that this account is a spam account.
Please take into consideration those three points, which, all together, make a solid case for The Guild (@theguildco, https://theguild.co) acquiring the inactive spam username of @guild.
I rest my case.
Thanks,
Devin Halladay
Founder, The Guild
https://theguild.co
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