May 21
I have been a Netflix customer for years. As a movie fan, I love what they provide me.
This morning I was curious if Netflix was on Twitter, so I performed a simple search. What I found was someone who registered the Netflix username and is selling it. This is not the first time this has happened. Boing Boing had a similar issue. Apparently this is a violation of Twitter’s TOS and you can you get your brand back.
If you are Netflix or Boing Boing, you are golden, but what about all the small business owners? As Twitter grows and cybersquatters get smarter, this will be harder to do. Go setup your business on Twitter now and stop the madness.
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May 21st, 2008 at 11:12 am
[…] The Danish newpapers are not the only one. Netflix is also suffering from cybersquatting. This is an even more obvious case. The one who set up the Twitter account - www,twitter.com/netflix - has put on a web address saying “for sale contact…” . I saw this at Simple Pixel. […]
August 19th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
The same thing holds true for our online travel industry competitors. I didn’t even know that was legal!