An appeal to the club to change their Twitter handle

chaileyjem said:

On Twitter you have two names ; A user name and an account name.
Albion's is currently username: BHAFC and account name: @OfficialBHAFC

Liverpool is : Liverpool FC and [MENTION=21338]lfc[/MENTION]
Palace is : Crystal Palace FC & [MENTION=15976]CPFC[/MENTION]

Some users on this thread and on twitter have been asking for Brighton to do the same and drop the word "Official" as the tick/verification (If Twitter confirm you are who you say you are they put a blue tick/a verification beside you account name to prove it to other users).

Albion can't be Brighton & Hove Albion FC (not enough characters) for their user name - and they can't be [MENTION=5978]bhafc[/MENTION] for their account name because someone else has it (a fan) and , til now, they haven't decided to get the account name back although they probably would have a case.

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chaileyjem said:

On Twitter you have two names ; A user name and an account name.
Albion's is currently username: BHAFC and account name: @OfficialBHAFC

Liverpool is : Liverpool FC and [MENTION=21338]lfc[/MENTION]
Palace is : Crystal Palace FC & [MENTION=15976]CPFC[/MENTION]

Some users on this thread and on twitter have been asking for Brighton to do the same and drop the word "Official" as the tick/verification (If Twitter confirm you are who you say you are they put a blue tick/a verification beside you account name to prove it to other users).

Albion can't be Brighton & Hove Albion FC (not enough characters) for their user name - and they can't be [MENTION=5978]bhafc[/MENTION] for their account name because someone else has it (a fan) and , til now, they haven't decided to get the account name back although they probably would have a case.

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Neville's Breakfast said:

Oh and what does the 'delete' reply from the club mean ? (Sorry to be in the thickos club as well)

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Neville's Breakfast said:

So there's an Albion fan preventing the club using the obvious Twitter name ? Not that I'm interested in Twitter (don't have it) but that does seem a bit lacking in generosity from a 'fan'

Oh and what does the 'delete' reply from the club mean ? (Sorry to be in the thickos club as well)

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chaileyjem said:

Yes as discussed earlier on in the thread. There is an Albion fan, or someone who behaves like an Albion fan, who uses the BHAFC account name.
https://twitter.com/bhafc

I think the "delete" is because the club did have "Official Bhafc" as their user name (i think) but have now, reverted to "BHAFC" only. ie: "Delete" due to the conversation
Delete is also a common comeback on twitter so might have been a reference to that as well.
See Hilary Clinton famously tweeting "Delete this" to a Trump tweet in the summer.

If not then i'm as perplexed as you.

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Carrot Cruncher said:

It's worth pointing out that it wasn't the club that replied, but some saddo who has used a similar account to the official one but replaced the 'L' of official with a lower case 'i'.

@OfficiaiBHAFC rather than @OfficialBHAFC.

Their only tweet, bar the reply to Adrie, is that we signed Charlie Austin at the end of August. Hilarious...

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Carrot Cruncher said:

It's worth pointing out that it wasn't the club that replied, but some saddo who has used a similar account to the official one but replaced the 'L' of official with a lower case 'i'.

@OfficiaiBHAFC rather than @OfficialBHAFC.

Their only tweet, bar the reply to Adrie, is that we signed Charlie Austin at the end of August. Hilarious...

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