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MBTA loses Twitter handle, then gains it back

By adamg on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 12:13am

UPDATED, 10:50 a.m., Tuesday.

T riders and the local twitterati were surprised last night to learn that the MBTA's Twitter handle had changed from @mbta to @mbtatransit.

This morning, it's back to @mbta.

The Globe reports the T had an unspecified "technical issue" with Twitter - to the point of publicly tweeting at Twitter's support handle. Nat V. reports that when he tried to snag @mbta in the interim, he got back an error message that it was "too short."

H/t Ari Ofsevit and Ari Herzog.

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By Wiffleball on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 7:23am.

leaves fewer characters for complaints.

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By Saul on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 10:04am.

Actually, not anymore:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12891562/twitter-tweets-140-characters...

Another new adjustment to the character limit is that usernames will no longer count when they're at the beginning of replies, giving users additional room for discussion.

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By Michael on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 8:52am.

Twitter should apologize for the inconvenience and tell them there's another technician directly behind this one

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By roadman on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 11:10am.

for "headway adjustment".

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By cybah on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 8:58am.

A few folks and I saw this around 10ish last night so I tried to see if I could snag it (and yes, I'd give it back to them without an issue b/c anything besides @mbta is silly for a twitter handle for the T). Makes me wonder if someone else took it what it would take to get it back

It said it was already taken. Twitter must have a cool down period, or someone was very fast...

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By BlackKat on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 9:20am.

MBTA8008

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By Ben_Quahog on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 12:08pm.

lol

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By ChrisInEastie on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 12:28pm.

Twitter has one that they can fall back on in the worst case scenario. There was also a lawsuit a few years back when they took some guy's username and gave it to a resort.

My original Twitter handle was @thebaconator, back when both the platform and the artery clogger were new and quite novel. It appears a private account with 16 tweets and a whole 12 followers is currently squatting it, Wendy's is really missing an opportunity.

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By Robert Paulson on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 9:57am.

After receiving too many complaints the MBTA will be changing its name to Xfinity

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By anon on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 11:55am.

....because BPDA was already taken.

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By noahproblem on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 12:54pm.

...will arrive some time between 12 Noon and 4 P.M."

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By adamg on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 11:06am.

They're back to @mbta. Original post update.

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By whyaduck on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 1:53pm.

@MBTAsucks?

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