Stephen Teran is a 6’5″ shoe salesman from Tucson, Arizona who happens to have Volcom as his Twitter username. He has 60 followers and likes to update with comments like “Taking the trash out. I want to go home already. Supposed to leave 2 hrs ago,” and “buying some sonoran hot dogs.”
Tonight Mr. Teran got the following tweet from the Volcom marketing division’s Willie Marshall: “@volcom yo hit me up, I got a proposition for you.”
We’re guessing that Willie is hoping to obtain Mr. Teran’s username. It will be interesting to see how this little proposition turns out because there are a couple more Twitter brand squatters out there who may be waiting in line for some propositions of their own: Burton, Billabong, Quiksilver, Electric, Roxy, Nixon, Dakine, Hurley, Adio, Rip Curl, Independent, Vans, O’Neill, Etnies, emerica, Gravis, K2 and more.
Looks like Twitter caught the action sports industry by surprise. Why does that not surprise us?
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Free tshirts 4 lyfe?
I think they call that alliteration, bobby….
Not a shocker at all.
I’m waiting for people to pick-up the term “Face Squatting” in reference to Facebook page brand squatting.
Action Sports brand name land grab. Somebody may have picked up IndyTrucks on twitter.
yo, Veeco contact @cybersquatters!
if they pay this guy a dime it will be a fucking joke. plus isn’t gravis going out of business?
Crailtap is being squat upon as well.
No one paid anyone a dime… Stephen was cool about it. Some promo was exchanged, and all the tweaking of twiiters has been twitted. check out twitter.com/volcom