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"We've all had it happen: \n\"This username is already in use. Please try again.\" \nPeople have taken our vanity URLs, our names and our SEO. We've gotten into wars over Twitter handles, over names on Google+ and gotten to new social networks just a moment too late. At Mashable, we like to refer to these people as \"Digital Doppelgangers.\" \nHere are some of our stories.\nChristina Warren\nChristina Warren has more than 22,500 followers on Twitter but still can't properly search for herself by name on the site. Why? Our resident @film_girl became an almost real-life movie star when a second Christina Warren became prominent on the web: the lead character of the movie Source Code.  Now, whenever she searches for herself, she tends to get movie references.\nCharlie White\nCharlie White doesn't own CharlieWhite.com. A photographer does \u2014 or at least he did. There's also an ice dancer \u2014 and Olympic silver medalist \u2014 by the name of Charlie White, as well as a politician in Indiana and a legendary fishing guru who had a fishing show on television before his death last year. All this name overcrowding means a severe SEO issue. \nMeghan Peters\nThis isn't only a story about Meghan, but one about her sister Meredith as well. There are not only one but two Meredith Peters who live in Brooklyn who have sisters named Meghan. Meredith, a nurse, was actually contacted by her doppelganger on Facebook. She was just saying hello!\n Adam Ostrow &amp; Robyn Peterson. \nThese photos say it all:\n\n\nPoor Other Robyn and Other Adam.\nSidenote: Other Adam got it wrong. Adam Ostrow is Mashable's editor in chief, not founder. That's Pete Cashmore's title. \n\nDo you have a Digital Doppelganger? \nHave you ever contacted someone with your name? Do you specially code your website somehow to have better SEO then theirs does? Have you tried to buy a handle or URL off of someone who wouldn't give? We've tried all of these things \u2014 but we want to hear your story, too.\nTell us in the comments below!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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