Twitter hands over personal details of @Skype registrant to Skype

Richard King, 08 April 2009

Twitter is handing out the personal details of people who register brand names on the micro-blogging service to big companies, without alerting the original registrant or performing any kind of standard due diligence. The move raises huge issues for the site, where Twitter names are increasingly being treated like domain names - but unlike domains there is, thus far, no kind of recourse to any kind of domain resolution system.