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Fisk400@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Elon isn’t buying them to sell, he’s just taking them.

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  • Fisk400@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The article talks about creating a marketplace for users to sell usernames to each other and twitter getting a cut of that.

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    • Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah 100% cut. Ask the former @music kid

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    • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t see that anywhere in the article.

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      • Fisk400@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.)”

        I seem to have misread this section as musk suggesting this but it’s actually just some random user suggesting it to musk.

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anything to get those user numbers up

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