Technically they don’t need to nor would you. Yeah its shitty but its making a mountain out of a molehill…
A typical Internet scammer would have at least pretended to offer some money before stealing the username.
He ain’t pretending …
I hate to say it because Fuck Elon, but this is just one of those things you sign away when you agree to the terms of service.
It’s still really petty - Elon is one of the richest guys on earth. Take the username, but send him a Tesla. Invite him to a SpaceX launch.
Well you don’t get rich by giving away 100k cars to everyone…
Exactly. You get rich by being a dick.
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True, but it’s still worth criticizing because of him being so dickish about it. He even renamed the account @x12345678998765.
And he could have gone down the “Mike Row Soft” route and offered the guy some free stuff as compensation. Terms allowing them to do something doesn’t mean they have to be dicks about it.
Exactly! Musk is being an asshole because he can and he likes it. Sure, he has every right to be an asshole just like Jason Aldean has the right to release a racist song. That doesn’t make them free from criticism.
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Bro you’ve only got 2 comments are both of em are shit talkin’ one dude. Grow up.
Bro you’ve only got 2 comments are both of em are shit talkin’ one dude. Grow up.
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Shitty social media website does shitty thing and continues enshittification full throttle.
https://twitter.com/x12345678908765/status/1684047458341642240
Edit: fake post, my bad
I’m not sure what you are trying to do with this link, the two
xaccounts are not the same…Reportedly Twitter changed the guy’s X account to that one.
I think we’re talking past each other, the
xwho lost his account (I think) is nowx12345678998765the post behind the link was made by the accountx12345678908765they are not the same account, so the link does neither disprove nor prove the article in the main post which makes the comment by sam just useless and deceivingAh, you’re correct. Cheers.
Very interesting times 💰(Parody)
Joined June 2023I don’t think that’s the original account.
0 is not 9. Look closely.
According to Hwang, the company now formerly known as Twitter did offer “an alternative handle with the history of the @x account” so that his original account, complete with its posts and followers, could live on and continue to be used.
What short, catchy username did Musk’s company change Hwang’s handle to? @x12345678998765.
You can’t make this shit up. God damn!
The first twelve trillion were already taken to be fair
Musk probably wanted to make it @x42069.
However, Hwang tells me, he was also offered a new handle of his choice – as long as it’s available. He just hasn’t picked one yet.
“as long as it’s available” is as good as nothing imho.
We’ll a lot of people have left
He should ask for @twitter.
It’s only fair. An even trade.
Since his handle is being taken against his will, he should get to take someone else’s handle against their will. Then let it be a chain reaction.
All for the buzz I imagine.
Or for some hyper inflated fragile ego I guess.
Well that’s my guess.
Let’s be real now. That name is temporary until he chooses his new one. Read the whole article. It’s rediculous enough without making things seem even worse.
But look at that username. It definitely not randomly generated. Someone at Twitter pick that new name. They just give someone with the shortest username possible (1 character) the longest possible username (15 characters), and they do so by pressing the number row back and forth until they hit the username characters size limit. If it’s not a mockery then I don’t know what is.
It’s not mockery, it is the logical thing to do. They don’t want to allocate a username a person would actually want, so naturally they pick the longest possible username, with arbitrary and meaningless contents. Would you have been happier if it was @xloremipsumdolo? @xtemporaryusern? Like what was the right thing for the technician who had to pick the name to do, in your mind?
I thought long and hard about this, and you’re right. If it were me, no matter what the new username is, I’m still going to be mad. But I feel like I’ll be less mad (just a little bit less) if they select a completely random username (with sensible length, like 8 characters or less), indicating it’s chosen by an impartial random number generator instead of chosen by someone who in my mind is messing with me (image of Elon Musk laughing at me coming in my mind).
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That is absolutely hilarious. They should’ve offered him @twitter in exchange, it would only be fair…
that sounds like what an idiot would have for a password.
Quick someone check if it’s Elons password!
Nah his password would definitely include an “42069” in it.
Did you try
xXx42069NoScopexXx?
It’s the same password I have on my luggage!
Who the hell downvoted an Airplane! quote?
Maybe someone who hasn’t see Airplane.
I refuse to believe there are people like that. I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
So you are saying one could log into @x with that…
As much as this sucks, this person has no rights to their name and never did. Stop using the platform and giving it attention!
Haha, me calling it dumb to think they’d be owed money is getting people super angry.
Being downvoted is not indicative of voters’ anger. It’s simply showing they don’t agree with you.
Pulling the victim card is revealing a shit-ton about you tho.
I see why people use downvoting this way, especially since that was the norm on reddit which a good portion of the base fled from, I find the same issue I had with downvotes on reddit to apply here as well though. I try to advocate down votes to be not out of personal opinion, but a reflection that the content is either useless or harmful to the existing conversation. This allows posts that are actually useful and contribute to the discussion to exist even if they are unpopular to peoples opinion. Just because you don’t like the post, doesn’t mean the post isn’t true or useful, which is why I find that form of downvoting ideology to be harmful overall.
That being said, I would find the parent comment you replied to as constructive to the conversation…Up until they started egging people on with “is getting people super angry” I wouldn’t call this being downvoted for not agreeing, I would call it being downvoted for not being constructive to the post at hand(as there’s no need to actively try to get people to rage at you with a post like that)
So what do users not agree to in my post but do with in this?
Also, what a fucking Reddit thing to do.
Crying reddit croc tears in no way helps your cause.
I don’t have a “cause”. But I see that you have no answer.
Yeah, it’s not like they ever bought that name from Twitter so there’s no real argument that they actually own it, even if they’d ever bought the checkmark BS.
Money and a rename would have been a goodwill gesture, and expecting any goodwill from this version of twitter is insanity.
I don’t think anyone is saying they are owed money. But just taking the handle with nothing in return is really not nice.
They could at least give the guy like Twitter Blue for life or whatever the heck premium is called now.
Is that not what the title says? Like, i’m new to Lemmy so maybe i’m confused? Didn’t OP write “He got no money from it :(” in the title?
More X-crement. Stop wasting your time on this shit site.
I swear to god fucking Elon Musk googled “cool website name generator” before changing it
I read he has a history with trying to make company X happen
Yeah I read, he should give up already
I think it’s more likely he googled “Call of Duty Username prefix generator” then shaved the duplicates XD
And got this:
I shall refer to it as Ex
Or “ten” and we all agree it should be looked at as a Roman numeral.
What if I don’t like the romans? I think they’re the reason we’re in this mess in the first place.
Another example of Musk being a cunt, what a surprise
Was he ever going to get paid
This can be done with any centralized social media. You don’t know your username.
I wouldn’t say it’s limited to centralized social media. The admin of Lemmy.world could go into its database and do whatever they want to my username, too. And other instances can feel free to steal my name if I didn’t grab it first.
That’s correct! The only social media I would trust is Nostr.
I wonder how is this post related to technology in any way? That is just some regular news.
It’s a reminder that in big parts of todays digital world you own nothing. All access, presumed rights, and data can be taken from you whenever a big company decides to do so. Is it news? Probably not. Are people aware of it? Clearly not - at least nobody acts like it.
Me being called XTornado … That was close not that close but again I didn’t predict this happening at all (all the Twitter name change all that ).
To be fair, no user “owns” their account. Everything about your Twitter account, from the user name to the data you tweet belongs to Twitter. I hesitate to call it a dick move. It’s more of an Elon move.
The user got Elon’d
Get Musked kiddo 😎
I really hope phrases like “he got Musked” and “they Musked up” become a thing.
Someone wrote those terms and conditions though. So, still a dick move.
Right. Although I don’t support it, but if the logic is that they can supress stories and say you don’t have a free speech on a private platform, then they can take away your handle because technically it’s theirs.
