Greetings all. I’ve recently had a few changes, both personally and at the site, which will hopefully leave me more time to pursue an idea I’ve had for this site for quite some time now. Stay tuned, hopefully you’ll be seeing it soon.
I logged on to Twitter a few nights ago, hoping to grab @returnsnull. Unfortunately, it was already taken, but had never been used. One of the best (and worst) things about Twitter is that, by default, you can only receive direct messages from someone you are following. The downside to that is, you can only direct message a user if they are following you. I decided to follow the account, hoping they would follow me back and we could discuss if they were interested in keeping the account or not.
That was my hope, but not really my expectation. I figured it was someone who had completely abandoned twitter and would never even notice I had followed them. Shortly after that, I received an email that I had a new follower named @beefytweets. Turns out, @beefytweets was the original account holder of @returnsnull. A few short DMs later and Cory had transferred the account over to me for use here at the site.
@MHGL: Hey Cory, I’m interested in the twitter name returnsnull for my website, are you interested in getting rid of it, selling, anything? Thanks!
@BeefyTweets: Hi Rodney, yeah I was going to start a blog with the name, I did a twitter search first and just grabbed it, then I saw your site 
@MHGL: Looks like it worked perfectly, thanks a million
@BeefyTweets: not at all. It feels good to help out. So many times I’ve cursed name campers
Oh, how I hate name campers. But that’s a different story, the story here is that @beefytweets is both a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you sir
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