"The Twitter username I want is already taken" is the likely cry of a lot of people who have just recently decided to join the Twittersphere. If this describes your Twitter signup experience your fortunes may change in the coming weeks.

In recent post on by Danny Sullivan on Search Engine Land, Danny caught up with Ev Williams (Twitter cofounder) at the Chirp conference and asked him if/when will Twitter release inactive usernames in bulk.

Williams replied that Twitter hopes to release "deleted names" for reuse within the next few weeks.

While this news doesn't return all "inactive" usernames back into the wild, it should help some Twitter newbies to obtain that username relevant to their personal brand.

More details on the Twitter username status can be found in Danny's write up at searchengineland.com.

This article is a follow up to an earlier post we made "The Twitter Name I Want is Taken but Not Being Used"