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Assetize Launches Twitter Account Parking
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Assetize, the startup known for selling Facebook vanity URL’s, has launched a new service targeted at Twitter users with unused, unwanted accounts. The same concept from Facebook vanity URL’s carries over to the Twittersphere. Assetize will let you park Twitter accounts, like domain names, for future use and in the meantime put ads on the account while you sit back and make money. To park your Twitter account, simply register with Assetize for an invite, then put in all of your account information, give keywords related to the parked account, and Assetize will then place ads on the account that are supposedly relevant to keywords you specify. In order to apply for the private beta, your Twitter account must have at least 200 followers.
Assetize currently has support for parked accounts at Blogger/Blogspot, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google Groups, Google Voice, Ning, Twitter, Wordpress, and Yahoo!.
While there is nothing in Twitter’s terms of service that explicitly states you cannot squat on names, you can be sure it won’t like the idea of using these accounts as placeholders with ads. Also, Twitter’s TOS is full of talk about copyrights and how it can “reclaim” Twitter names if there is some kind of dispute over the name.
So park at your own risk.
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