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How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by Naoki Hiroshima(medium.com)

almost 10 years ago from Joshua Hynes, Senior Product Designer at Dialpad; formerly Stack Overflow

  • Chris De La FuenteChris De La Fuente, almost 10 years ago

    My first reaction to all this is that it's hilarious. Hilarious because my first impressions are that his Twitter handle is that precious to him by the way he called it his $50,000 username. (That is obviously not really the case, he gave it up willingly)

    I am only 21 and I love tech, but this sort of puts the world in perspective for me as far as what's important. I used to Google everywhere how I could get the Twitter handle @CD because I thought it would be "cool" but that is obviously a path I would rather not follow now.

    /rant - I suck at putting my thoughts into writing - downvotes please.

    7 points
    • Joshua HynesJoshua Hynes, almost 10 years ago

      (That is obviously not really the case, he gave it up willingly)

      Well if you believe his account, he didn't really give it up "willingly." Probably more begrudgingly because he valued everything else this attacker held (domain, email, PayPal, etc).

      2 points
      • Chris De La FuenteChris De La Fuente, almost 10 years ago

        Yeah true. I wanted to express the fact that the headline woke me up and made me laugh at myself and my illusions of what is important. I am just terrible with putting things concisely.

        0 points