I lost my $50,000 Twitter username (2014)

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orionblastar · 9h ago

I am sad to hear that. Must have been a password leak. I lost a Twitter account too due to password hacking. I used to own @Kingpublishing, and someone hacked it and banned it so that I couldn't use it for my writing business.

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I lost my $50,000 Twitter username (2014)

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