[taytus]

I honestly wonder how many of twitter's accounts are fake accounts, it seems that spam is a huge problem there.

[uptown]

No idea. But I'd throw $100 their way to buy an account that's been dormant for six years.

[timboslice]

Due to vanity reasons (they have "your" handle?) or for some other reason?

[uptown]

It correlates to a domain for a site I'm in the process of building. I haven't registered the brand's trademark yet, so I'm unable to claim the Twitter username based on that criteria. Seems like the only route they provide for this kind of thing.

[pratyushag]

I believe if you have the domain name you should be able to get the twitter handle. You can always just submit for a trademark, that's easy and cheap.

[uptown]

I've never registered a trademark before. Is there anything more to it than paying the fee and filing the paperwork for a business that's not yet operational?

[slayed0]

why?

[dangrossman]

Dormant accounts can hold good handles forever. Like the name of my website: https://twitter.com/improvely

[softawre]

Imagine you have to write an algorithm to determine twitter spam. Would it include accountCreatedDate?

[minimaxir]

The algorithm would probably contain a dummy variable representing isYoungerThanXDays where X is the median number of time it takes to create a new account after it has been banned.

I doubt accounts that are Y days old vs. Z years old have different probabilities of being spammers.

[nikanj]

https://twitter.com/blacktopcabs

[codingdave]

Probably quite a few, but no matter what an inactive account is -- spam, a novelty account, or an actual inactive person -- if you have 3 times as many inactive accounts as active accounts, there is something awry.