They took the handle @x from him and moved all of his stuff to @x12345678998765
I’m not sure what would be more angering, losing @x or the fact that they gave him a 16 character handle 15 of which is nonsense.
It’s also just a weird new handle, it’s not even like they tried to replace it with something good, just a jira ticket that says “give him something new, it can start with x but should be clear it’s not associated with us” and someone just rolled over the number keys.
As soon as the prior holder of the handle can produce a contract that allows him un-revokable use of the handle I'm sure Elon will give it back or compensate him.
Just one misstep in the 100s that have already occurred. At this point what was the point in buying Twitter to begin with? Whatever Musk had originally bought is no longer of any value. 44 Billion would have given a brand new startup a very long runway. 1 billion would have been plenty.
"An obvious misstep"... yeah, it doesn't look good from a certain PR point of view. But it could also be considered able-ist biggotry to judge Elon by the standards of someone without Asperger's, no?
It's also possible X/Twitter reached out to the handle holder who told them to pound sand so they exercised admin authority and he's telling a different story. Like so many things online the truth is difficult to discover but we all know how we feel about people and brands are willing to shoot from the lip without proof.
I don't think legally they will win. Only from the consumer perspective this is misleading, they are taking advantage of a position of power to harm a user.
Commonly we see posts here detailing how Google suspended people’s accounts, thus losing all their email/contacts/files/etc, and it’s usually met with a unanimous “that’s terrible Google can’t just do that without reason” response. This is just one example.
But when it’s a company owned by Elon there’s always victim blamers like yourself. I wonder why that is?
I’m not sure what would be more angering, losing @x or the fact that they gave him a 16 character handle 15 of which is nonsense.
It’s also just a weird new handle, it’s not even like they tried to replace it with something good, just a jira ticket that says “give him something new, it can start with x but should be clear it’s not associated with us” and someone just rolled over the number keys.