Hi Adam, The following policy documents explain a little bit more about how we approach this and what steps are available for you to take:
Trademark: http://support.twitter.com/entries/18367-trademark-policy Impersonation: http://support.twitter.com/entries/18366-impersonation-policy Inactive Usernames: http://support.twitter.com/entries/15362-inactive-usernames-policy We have a dedicated team for user/account questions who can better answer anymore questions you have about this. They can be reached through our support system: http://bit.ly/twicket Hope that helps, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Adam Green <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a client who owns a .com domain name and has applied for a > trademark for the matching name. The Twitter account for this name was > created by someone else and has been suspended. Is there any way to > help them take over this account? They really want to build a Twitter > based app around this name, so using the matching account name is > important to them. And they want me to build the app, so it's > important to me too. Any directions towards a path to resolve this > would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
