@N Has Been Restored to Its Rightful Owner

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Many of you have been following with interest Naoki Hiroshima’s tale of how he was extorted into giving up his valuable @N username on Twitter. The good news is that Hiroshima is back in control of the account:

Order has been restored.

— Naoki Hiroshima (@N) February 25, 2014

It remains to be seen what exactly took place behind the scenes at PayPal and GoDaddy, and why it took so long for Twitter to decide to return the account to its original owner, at least we’ve arrived at a happy resolution for this particular saga.