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What does it matter if you can buy a username on Twitter? We all know that at any point Musk will just take it from you like he did to the owner of the X handle. Here’s a thought, why not just get off of twitter already.
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Submitted 1 year ago by Jezebelley@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
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Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
argarath@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You forget that there are SO MANY gullible morons there eating up every single bullshit that musk says and then asks for seconds after fighting the flies off the shit nuggets left behind
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)
Teon@kbin.social 1 year ago
Remember: this is a private company he owns. He can do as he pleases. And when he changes his mind you are fucked, because he is an immature child who lives in 'elon' world.
Help your friends and family to move to ANY other social media platform (preferably the Fediverse).Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
Even as a private company he is bound by law.
It’s a public-facing platform, it’s not obvious your profile can be take away, and it wasn’t a thing when you set it up. That sounds like a decent case to me you could at least ask a lawyer about.
vodkasolution@feddit.it 1 year ago
How much for @ElonSucks?
Zorque@kbin.social 1 year ago
Probably about $13B
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not enough 420 or 69 jokes for Elon to accept that offer.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I agree, you’re spot on it’s around $12B
Jeffool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Like I said in another post:
Seems like a good time to remind everyone just a few months ago he took two active usernames from their users without warning. Both @x and @music were in use and taken by Musk with no warning and no recompense.
At this rate I see it as completely possible that someone buys one, and the first time they don’t update within whatever Musk feels like is “too long” that day, he takes it back with no warning.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Money laundering?
Tyfud@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Yeah, most likely. This lets his rich buddies give him money for bribes and shit and it acts as “income”
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Email solicitations to potential buyers, so seems likely.
Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is what non-tech news looks like.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s starting to get exhausting, you know of any other communities on lemmy that actually reports on tech news? This shit’s boring. I want to see tech
Fisk400@feddit.nu 1 year ago
I’m sure this wont create an incentive to create thousands of accounts in order to squat on them.
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Elon isn’t buying them to sell, he’s just taking them.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 1 year ago
The article talks about creating a marketplace for users to sell usernames to each other and twitter getting a cut of that.
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Anything to get those user numbers up
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I actually really like how he is behaving similar to some 00s web forum owners (I imagine mostly forum text RPGs, cause that’s what I was on as a kid).
Then you could jump to another such forum, and still seamlessly keep contact (via ICQ or something else in other countries) with everybody. Cause the forum was one thing, and chatting with people was a separate thing, not controlled by the same people.
Want that back. And the first 2 HP games. And the web browser being a lightweight program as compared to many other things we’d run.
And Opera 9.
BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Fuck Elon!! Fuck Spez!!
bladerunnerspider@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Remember when they took the X handle away from someone?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shitty NFTs
Senex@reddthat.com 1 year ago
No, desperation would be selling off old Twitter door handles for $50,000.
sugarfree@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We already know there are black markets for usernames on every social media site, so the website stepping in and setting up a regulated marketplace itself is a good idea. There’s no reason a highly coveted username should stay on an account that was registered 10 years ago and has never been used since, or on a banned account.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 year ago
We already know there are black markets for usernames on every social media site
Do we?...
so the website stepping in and setting up a regulated marketplace itself is a good idea.
If the site can take your account because they want to, what exactly are you buying?
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 year ago
Let them gulp down that copium
Holyginz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anyone paying 50000 for a Twitter handle is beyond stupid.
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This idea was brought to you by the guy who paid $44B for Twitter. I guess he figures since he’s dumb enough to grossly overpay for things, other people might be as well.
fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Well he’s not wrong, dumb people like him overpay for stuff all the time
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or bribing Musk.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
True but no one said he was able to sell them?
No correlation at all but I do not use my Reddit handle any more.
*scrubbing my hands *
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Asking for a high price is not foolish, but paying it is.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Anyone paying even a single penny for anything on Twitter is beyond stupid.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Unless you think you can sell it for more at a later date. It’s NFT bullshit all over again.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
$50k is already overpriced.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
or a company with a brand
ironhydroxide@partizle.com 1 year ago
wunami@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lol. 44 billion divided by 440 million is 100. Just one hundred.