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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Because MBTA Is For The Birds (Among Other Things)
By Elmer
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 1:37am
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A longer handle
By Wiffleball
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 7:23am
leaves fewer characters for complaints.
not anymore
By Saul
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 10:04am
Actually, not anymore:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12891562/twitter...
"the T is trying to resolve "a technical issue" with Twitter"
By Michael
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 8:52am
Twitter should apologize for the inconvenience and tell them there's another technician directly behind this one
Twitter decided to make this change
By roadman
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 11:10am
for "headway adjustment".
I tried too
By cybah
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...
Might I Suggest The Alternative
By BlackKat
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 9:20am
MBTA8008
calculator humor
By Ben_Quahog
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 12:08pm
lol
Trademark Policy
By ChrisInEastie
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.
After receiving too many
By Robert Paulson
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 9:57am
After receiving too many complaints the MBTA will be changing its name to Xfinity
....because BPDA was already
By anon
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 11:55am
....because BPDA was already taken.
"Attention passengers: The next (color) train to (destination)..
By noahproblem
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 12:54pm
...will arrive some time between 12 Noon and 4 P.M."
Update
By adamg
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 11:06am
They're back to @mbta. Original post update.
How about a new and improved one...
By whyaduck
Tue, 12/06/2016 - 1:53pm
@MBTAsucks?
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