Can you buy or sell a Twitter username?

Caitlin Level 1

December 19, 2013, 5:02 am

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Can you buy or sell a Twitter username?

If you find a Twitter username that you really like or which fits your industry, can you simply make an offer to the account owner to buy it? This might be a keyword specific username, which would match your site or forum exactly.

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angie828

I am not sure if you can sell it. I would think that twitter may be against this but I am not really sure.

11 years ago

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denaameiliap

o_O nothing

11 years ago

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robertman11

Of course you can although I don't know if that violates the TOS for twitter (selling accounts).

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jakemadness

You would be able to try and make a offer to the account owner, but it could violate the TOS of twitter.

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Beverly

You can do pretty much anything so long as no one finds out. But that doesn't mean it's legal or within the TOS of Twitter.

However, it says so clearly in Twitter TOS:

You may not buy or sell Twitter usernames.

https://support.twitter.com/articl...he-twitter-rules

That doesn't mean others aren't or haven't. I'm sure there is a risk the account would be banned if they found out.

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Jolie

I wouldn't do it, only because I like using Twitter a lot and getting my IP banned would prevent me from using my Twitter account.

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zabedm

If you want you can !
you can open a service on Seocheckout for buy or sell a Twitter account

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PinkTurtle

I don't think you can do it but people sure do it! They sell it whenthey have enough followers, especially for newbies that don't want to spend
that much time gaining the followers. I have seen this too with Instagram
accounts. These is particularly helpful when you want the account to sell
products and don't want to invest time in gaining followers so instead you
invest money on it. But they sure are really expensive!

7 years ago

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