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You're sure about that? I don't think so. There's tons of connections made from people transferring short, human-readable handles. Think business cards, word of mouth. e.g. I'm at (@) handle. That's much easier to lookup as opposed to searching for someone's name. It may even be a business that's not tied to the individual's name.



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