Rare Twitter Handle Allegedly Stolen Is Now Returned To Owner

[engine]

This sounds a little strange to me. I would have thought twitter held the keys.

Twitter username @N - which had allegedly been stolen - has been returned to its original owner.

Naoki Hiroshima, who had held the Twitter handle since 2007, claimed last month that a hacker had stolen it. Rare Twitter Handle Allegedly Stolen Is Now Returned To Owner [bbc.co.uk]

However, he did not mention how he got back the control of the handle.

[LauraM001]

PR stunt maybe?

Or perhaps the thief had an attack of conscience... ha!

But yes I would have thought the Twitter gods would have been the only ones with the powers to return the name.

[bill]

It doesn't say that Twitter didn't give him the handle back...I was assuming this was something Twitter investigated and accomplished internally.