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shawndrost on April 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd

Tumblr renames almost-dead [0] account after notifying user [1] and not hearing back. When she complains, they give it back [0]. What assholes.

Can I flag this? I'm flagging this.

[0] Last post Jan 21; 5 posts since Sept '10. http://zephoria.tumblr.com/ [1] http://twitter.com/#!/davidkarp/status/63313370283122688

kmfrk on April 28, 2011 [–]

They e-mailed her on Passover and gave her 72 hours to reply[1].

Assholes in my book.

[1]: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/04/27/tumblr-...

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