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> but are twitter handles even precious?

Precious enough to be sold for $100k as can be read above.

You can't have it both ways, if a handle is worthless then why take it away from someone?

@dang, how much to buy the user account "seydor", I need it for uh, reasons.

edit: tempted to clarify with /s but that would defeat the point of the response..

Cool that you said this with an username like yours, as I do not think you would care for less, or more of underscores. :D

But why should they have to use another handle just because someone wants it? Your handle is your online identity, and some people have built up theirs around it. Not everyone just chooses random strings for each service they use.

Of course, I'm only saying this for active accounts. If you've been inactive for a reasonable amount of time, sure, let someone else have it.

i m not saying it's right, but also don't see a lot of value in handles

Twitter has 2 levels of verification tag that's what usually verifies users, as there are so many impersonators. Even when twitter removes the verification (like they did for iran's foreign minister) , people use other channels to point to the real one.