The company has discussed selling some user names through online auctions, people with knowledge of the plans said. By Ryan Mac and Kate Conger Twitter has considered selling user names to generate ...

Twitter/X has a unique problem. After the departure of users following Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media site (and again following his short stint with the Trump administration), the site has a ...

New service digs through different sites to see if your user name there is open. If it is, you can either sign up for it, or pay the service to do it for you. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Brisbane, Australia, June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wheel Of Names Picker, a newly introduced browser-based platform, today announced the official launch of its interactive random selection tool.

A: Yes, if you want to ensure the next-to-highest possible level of security and anonymity on the internet using different user names for your different accounts is advisable. Do I do it? No. That’s ...

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In a dramatic turnaround from policy created — and enforced — three years ago, Google has now reversed its "real names" policy. Users can now use any name they want across Google services. The company ...

Sexual Walrus. WhoFlungDung. Carlton Ganks. Cocktimus Prime. Those are a few of the “Best Usernames on League of Legends” forum, and a new study reveals that those user ID’s say lot about gamers’ real ...

Microsoft says it will make changes in its new Productivity Score feature, including removing the ability for companies to see data about individual users, to address concerns from privacy experts ...