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by tommypalm 1022 days ago
I was early enough to get my first name on Twitter and didn't, but did get it on Instagram.

The @tommy on Twitter was a dev at Gameloft who gets constantly harassed in his mentions to give it up. I had a similar problem on Instagram. I've mostly stopped using it, but when I did post and had an open profile I constantly got comments offering money for my username.

Eventually someone set up a follower bot on my account and I was getting hundreds of new followers a day. I made my profile private and don't post anymore, but it's still hundreds of new follower requests per day.