100 Dead Twitter Accounts That Deserve a Second Chance

There is nothing more frustrating than a perfectly good username gone to waste.

There is a large amount of brands, celebrities and other potentially valuable accounts being taken advantage of on Twitter. Users squat a celebrity or brand name and then assume the account will garner followers on the name alone. Of course, other users are usually smart enough to realize Steve Buscemi is probably not really advertising a website for "Father's Day Gift Ideas." (If anything, the egg avatar will always give it away.)

Twitter as a company is familiar with this annoyance. Its founders originally planned for users to text status updates to Twittr (the former name) using the matching five-digit short code. It turns out the number was already taken by Teen People: "txttp," or "Text TP."