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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Musk’s company has been rumored to be planning to put such a program into effect for months. As early as November 2022, Musk posted on the social media site that a “vast number” of handles had been taken by “bots and trolls” and that he planned to start “freeing them up next month.” (In response, a user suggested a “Handle Marketplace” where people could sell accounts to each other, with the site pocketing a fee; Forbes couldn’t determine whether such a practice is now in place.)
They want usernames to be nuts lol
Instead Musk is going to accuse accounts that are just sitting there of being abandoned or a bit, and selling them
takeda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bots/trolls don’t care about having cool handles so nothing from them would be valuable enough to pay for. As you said, it is now about the inactive handles that were left, for example npr. He hopes that maybe this will make them come back or maybe real trolls will purchase them.
coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think some people will lose their accounts because they are suddenly claimed to be “bots/trolls”.
silasmariner@programming.dev 1 year ago
Twitter handles aren’t domain names, lol. These tweets you see linked to in articles will hang around for half a decade before the fediverse full on replaces it (no it won’t be threads you can’t fucking read a thread without a login it’s a piece of shit)
kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 1 year ago
https://www.threads.net/@ElonMusksJet
You can read without a login (if you get a link) but you can't browse or anything.
silasmariner@programming.dev 1 year ago
I stand corrected, thanks