Ever since its rebranding, X (previously referred to as Twitter) seems to be caught in new controversies day-after-day. After headlines reported on authorities placing a short lived halt to the elimination of the Twitter emblem from the corporate headquarters in San Francisco, now a brand new controversy has engulfed the Elon Musk-owned platform. A person, who held possession of the coveted @x username, has reported that it was taken from him by the corporate, and he was solely supplied some merchandise and a tour of the corporate together with a gathering with the administration.
In line with a report by Telegraph, the account belonged to Gene X Hwang, a San Francisco-based photographer, who joined the social media website in 2007 and was amongst one of many earliest customers. Ever since registering for the platform, he has saved his username as @X, which is now additionally the corporate title. On Tuesday evening, he obtained an e-mail that knowledgeable him that the deal with was being taken. Simply hours later, the deal with grew to become the brand new official account for communication across the platform, whereas the beforehand energetic Twitter Assist account was deleted.
Hwang’s account is ready to non-public so any tweets made by him couldn’t be independently verified by us, nevertheless, the Telegraph reported that he was keen to entertain the concept of promoting his username. Single-letter usernames are a number of the most in-demand handles on X. Up to now, they’ve bought for hundreds of {dollars}. For instance, the report mentions {that a} person who owns the @n deal with mentioned that they have been supplied $50,000 to promote their account.
Nonetheless, that didn’t occur to Hwang. “They only took it primarily – kinda what I assumed may occur…They did ship an e-mail saying it’s the property of ‘x’ primarily…I’d promote if approached I believe. Guess it relies on the supply,” he mentioned. Whereas Hwang was supplied some X merchandise and a go to to the corporate HQ and a gathering with the administration, monetary incentives weren’t given.
Unique proprietor of @X will get a brand new account
Regardless of dropping out on the dear account, Hwang was allowed to make a brand new account and retain carry all the info from his earlier account to the brand new one, together with all his followers. Earlier than the corporate rebranded itself, Hwang had about 30,000 followers. Nonetheless, after the incident, his follower rely is at round 67,000. Tweeting from his new account @x12345678998765, he mentioned, “All’s properly that ends properly”.