Got email from some rando who wants to buy my twitter handle. My follower count should make my handle worth $0, but it's a 2-letter name, so that's valuable, somehow?
2 years ago
I'd be very careful. Darknet Diaries recently did a really interesting episode (@Tennessee) about the lengths some people will go to to acquire rare social media handles; like criminal levels of harassment. 路 2 years ago
I've heard stories of nutjobs who go to the lengths of tracking down the owners of handles like that and harassing or hacking them to get the handles, presumably to sell. Not saying that's common or anything to worry about. I bet the handles that form real words are more sought after. Hold onto it though, that's cool! 路 2 years ago
It could always be a scam, but IMO theres a very real possibility They're either a fool who is easily departed of their hard earned cash, or are wealthy enough to the point that $1000 Is relatively chump change. Its the same kind of person who is willing to pay thousands for NFTs or rare videogame item skins. 路 2 years ago
I'd guess it's a combination of vanity and having too much money. 路 2 years ago
I know it's unique from that standpoint, but I am unclear on why someone would find it valuable enough to offer $1000 for it. Some company wanting to use the handle? Some scam I don't know about? 路 2 years ago
There are only 1352 total unique two letter combinations using the english alphabet asuming we dont count upper and lowercase letters seperately which brings the total up to 2704, however I dont think twitter tells uppercase from lowercase. So you actually do posess a relatively unique user handle just from a language combinatorics perspective. 路 2 years ago