Not Jared Neumark

So Adam (News Groper’s COO) set up a Twitter account on behalf of Jared Neumark (News Groper’s editor who has never used Twitter) without his knowledge or consent. Once Jared found out, he filled out Twitter’s complaint form jokingly. Here’s the result: 

From: Twitter Support support@twitter.com>
Date: May 28, 2008 11:27:16 PM EDT
To: futurejared@newsgroper.com
Subject: RE: request from Jared {253352}

Hi There,

We’ve received a complaint from a fellow Twitterer. It has come to our attention that your Twitter account:

http://twitter.com/jaredneumark

is in violation of our basic Terms of Service, specifically article 4 which mentions impersonation:

  1. You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users.

In this case “impersonation” is the issue. Impersonation is against our terms of service unless it’s parody. The standard for defining parody is, “Would a reasonable person be aware that it’s a joke.”

To settle this issue we’ve changed the user name to “notjaredneumark” in the full name and username fields in order to eliminate confusion. You can change your real and user names to something else if you’d like:

  1. Visit Twitter.com/settings
  2. Edit the Full Name and Username fields
  3. Click “Save”

but please honor Twitterʼs Terms of Service accordingly. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter.

Thanks,

Twitter Support