A Twitter User with an Invisible Account & 35,000 followers


	A Twitter User with an Invisible Account & 35,000 followers

digitalfever

8-21-2009 5:01 AM

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digitalfever says:

A mysterious Twitter user with the username “home” seems to be getting a rather raw deal. Whenever somebody tries to access Twitter.com/home they are redirected to the Twitter homepage – it seems that this particular account has been grandfathered and overwritten without the user knowing.

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