Of course Elon swiped the @X account out from under the person who'd had it previously. There was only one way this was ever going to play out.

Does the owner of the account have any recourse? I'm pretty sure that the answer is NOPE.

@evacide that is, that account on Twitter, not on hachyderm, right?
@thisismissem Yes. I was concerned that the way I'd written the tweet would clutter up the mentions of the person with that account on my instance, but that account is not active.
@evacide you're crossposting from twitter to hachyderm?