Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.

Elon Musk is a bully

According to Hwang, the company now formerly known as Twitter did offer "an alternative handle with the history of the @x account" so that his original account, complete with its posts and followers, could live on and continue to be used.

What short, catchy username did Musk's company change Hwang's handle to? @x12345678998765.

You can't make this shit up. God damn!

What short, catchy username did Musk's company change Hwang's handle to? @x12345678998765.

It could have been worse.

They could have named him "X Æ A-12" 😵‍💫

Man...

I was pretty bummed when I heard that Twitter was going to die. There are some cool moments in history that happened on Twitter. It was a hell of a ride, but the writing was on the wall well before Elon bought it. It was time to go.

But not like this.

It deserved a good death. Not to have it's corpse raped on full display over and over.

A lot of very talented people committed so much time and energy to this. When it launched, it was a novel idea and they really forged some roads in our understanding of how we communicate and receive information.

It was clear at the end that it would never produce the kind of ROI on advertising to make investors happy, and that Nazis had clearly taken over the platform and used it to bastardize journalism further. It was time to go to pasture.

But not like this.

Hopefully its mutilated, humiliated and desiccated corpse will feed the growth of the federated web.

I hope you find peace, sweet prince.

Shitty social media website does shitty thing and continues enshittification full throttle.

Well I went ahead and did a mastadon. No clue what I am doing, but.. Woohoo?

I'm chamrsdeluxe@mastadon.social there too I guess. Idk

What short, catchy username did Musk's company change Hwang's handle to? @x12345678998765.

That's some really !funnyandsad material...

I hate to say it because Fuck Elon, but this is just one of those things you sign away when you agree to the terms of service.

As much as this sucks, this person has no rights to their name and never did. Stop using the platform and giving it attention!

To be fair, no user "owns" their account. Everything about your Twitter account, from the user name to the data you tweet belongs to Twitter. I hesitate to call it a dick move. It's more of an Elon move.

Musk is an overpaid idiot, but anyone has to expect not to have any real rights on any website.

Imagine how amazing the PR would have been if the title had been: "User gets spectator seating for a SpaceX launch in return for lost handle"

More X-crement. Stop wasting your time on this shit site.

Another example of Musk being a cunt, what a surprise

I can hear his theme song now.....

X gon' take it from ya (uh), he gon' take it from ya X gon' take it from ya, he gon' take it from ya

First we gonna rock, then we gonna roll Then we let it pop, go, let it go

This can be done with any centralized social media. You don't know your username.

I doubt X has much money to spare to give to people considering how they hemorrhage money.

const x = 0;

The guy should ask for @xoriginal...

Technically they don't need to nor would you. Yeah its shitty but its making a mountain out of a molehill....

I swear to god fucking Elon Musk googled “cool website name generator” before changing it

Can someone pro-bono the original user for a suit? inb4 this is a dumb idea

FUCK ELON MUSKy

Yup, keep fucking that chicken there Elon.

I shall refer to it as Ex

Knowing Musk, this is not a surprise.

Was he ever going to get paid

That would be amazing

Me being called XTornado ... That was close not that close but again I didn't predict this happening at all (all the Twitter name change all that ).

offensive but idgaf about Tw so, did they ban the owner's email login while at being dicks

Why is this news? It is their platform. You have your handle at their discretion. Getting paid for it? Hahahaha. Riiiight. This isn't some domain that is actually owned. You own literally nothing on social media platforms. Whoever theorized he'd be paid is moronic and a perfect example of a twit.

Leftpad

I wonder how is this post related to technology in any way? That is just some regular news.

https://twitter.com/x12345678908765/status/1684047458341642240

Edit: fake post, my bad

Yeah why would they pay the "owner"? It's their platform they do whatever they want. What a dumb thing to complain about.