realcaseyrollinsTwitter commandeers @x username from man who had it since 2007
Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him “some merch.”
merfolkUnfortunately the expected move from the cesspool formerly knows as Twitter.
Yep, totally not surprising in the least. Imagine if you’d built up a whole following around one handle and poof, it’s just gone. I think Musk got threatened by how stupid Huffman was being with Reddit and decided that the only way to be more stupid was to relabel the already flailing company.
Not defending the thin-skinned rich kid but the tweeter formerly known as @X didn’t lose anything apart from the name. Anyone can change their @name on Twitter and keep the rest of the account intact. Twitter changed his @name so that they could change their @name. Nothing else changed on either account.
So you’re not trying to belittle the fact that this guy has spent time with his X brand for a long time and now Musk is just stealing it because he feels like it? I mean, for someone who’s not defending the rich, you sure do put up a valiant effort. If anything, I hope someone’s trademarked X before Musk so they can sue him into oblivion for it and give him a taste of his own asshole medicine.
There is this thing called context. And you forgot all about it.
No, the context to me is quite clear. You’re attempting to assauge critique via deflection. It’s like saying you shouldn’t be upset that someone took a shit in your house, because at least they had the good sense to leave afterwards instead of tracking it all over your carpet. I’m not buying it and nobody else is either. Give it up already.
The poster claimed that the guy lost all his followers and posts. That is not what happened. Obviously he should have been paid a small fortune for the account name. But there’s no need to lie about what actually happened.
You fail to realize this is Pandora’s box. Musk is signaling he is willing to take anyones handle given a business case. Let’s say you own a company and now want to petition musk with money and a reason to take someone else’s handle for whatever dumb reasoning, I garantee you requests are flooding in
WTF? How does that relate to anything I said?
It’s the logical conclusion of the action. I’m not trying to belittle you on this topic, I’m trying to say actions usually have an invisible signaling that some people pick up on and others don’t. There is signaling with this action and why other companies (like say Google - think gmail - and their handles/usernames) would not do this (inb4 email is not the same)