Twitter handles are worth a lot of money and hackers have spent much effort to steal them. See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/how-i-alm

Twitter handles are worth a lot of money and hackers have spent much effort to steal them. See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/how-i-almost-lost-my-500000-twitter-username-jb-and-my-startup/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/how-i... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/twitter-restores-50000-n-username-to-its-owner/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/twitt... Amazing if Twitter is just going to release valuable namespaces worth millions all on the same day.