Bitcoin miner Cameron Asa claims that Twitter wrongfully terminated his possession of the @Cameron Twitter handle and handed it to Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss.
Asa claimed in a tweet that has since been deleted that he set up @Cameron “well over 10 years ago,” but Twitter inexplicably banned the account and rebuffed all attempts to engage for two years.
According to Asa, Twitter never actually gave a solid reason for banning his account. He insists that he did nothing wrong, but the platform deliberately ignored his attempts to appeal his ban until enough time had passed for the handle to legally be reassigned.
From Genesis to 2018 Ban
A Twitter OG (Original Gangster) account is a type of Twitter account which is especially desirable and in-demand because the handle is short and memorable. Examples of Twitter OG accounts are @David, @Jack, @0x and @Cameron.
Asa, who works full time as a bitcoin miner, says that he was never actually informed about what he actually did wrong to earn the ban. He claims that despite reaching out repeatedly during the period, he was simply ignored.
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In February 2018, Twitter announced a revision to its policy on automation and use of multiple accounts with a March 28 compliance deadline. The policy aimed to tackle the proliferation of sock puppet accounts and fake engagement on the platform. It resulted in a purge of up to 70 million accounts deemed suspicious or inauthentic.
Asa claims that while other people with both personal and parody accounts lost their parody accounts, he lost his personal account. In so doing, he says, he was locked out of his account and unable to tweet until enough time had elapsed for the handle to legally be changed and reassigned.
Twitter Seemingly Reassigns Account to Cameron Winklevoss
Asa says that he believes his attempts to prove his innocence were intentionally ignored so that Twitter could give his account to Winklevoss.
Twitter’s rules on the subject of account reassignment due to inactivity read as follows:
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BeinCrypto reached out to Winklevoss for comment, but we were unable to establish contact with him as of press time. In the meantime, a glance at Winklevoss’ Twitter page confirms that he is indeed the current owner of the @Cameron handle.
On this day in 2013, @tylerwinklevoss and I presented the long case for #Bitcoin at the Value Investing Congress in NYC. The price of bitcoin was $132.
— Cameron Winklevoss (@cameron) September 17, 2020
Same conference where @davidein presented a short case for Lehman in 2007. Lehman filed for bankruptcy less than a year later.
BeinCrypto will bring more updates as the story develops.
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