Comment on Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.
howrar@lemmy.ca 1 year agoNo one is owed anything, but not compensating the original owner further erodes what little trust was left in the company. You wouldn’t want to spend resources building a brand on a platform where your name can suddenly get snatched away at some billionaire’s whim.
anteaters@feddit.de 1 year ago
Absolutely true. But apparently the headlines for this event are all “he got no money for it!”
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Up until it was taken from him, he would have been able to sell it for a shit tonne of money. I think it’s easy to understand why it was shitty of Twitter yo just snatch it