Published: October 26, 2025
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I have it on good record from current maintainers that the guy running the Twitter isn’t really involved with FFmpeg at all, but none of them have the password so they can’t remove him. If he really cares about FFmpeg, he will hand over the password. Once I have confirmation

@theo Ok, but real talk, was he working for them and stole the account, or simply some kinda enthusiast who made an account without consulting them? Cause like, that kinda changes how to approach him. Basically just don't want to be villanizing too early here.

@NewAgeRetroNerd @theo It’s the second, seems like. Just a guy who created the account in 2013 and runs it since then.

@bazzilic @theo If that's the case, then it'd be cool to buy it off him, but he does technically have a right to that account. Why he wouldn't want to partner with the team if he's enthusiastic is beyond me, but just saying technically it would be rightly his in that case.

@NewAgeRetroNerd @theo Of course he is in his right. I’m a big fan of @ffmpeg actually, IMO the guy does a great job at shining the light on the xkcd-2347 problem and surfacing it outside the oss bubble

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