Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
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 nfts lol
Instead Musk is going to accuse accounts that are just sitting there of being abandoned or a bit, and selling them
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 at least he can make some money if real trolls will purchase them. I think he was waiting for a year, because the former is worth more. The later generates some income, but it dilutes the value of Twitter.
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)
They want usernames to be nfts lol
Instead Musk is going to accuse accounts that are just sitting there of being abandoned or a bit, and selling them
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 at least he can make some money if real trolls will purchase them. I think he was waiting for a year, because the former is worth more. The later generates some income, but it dilutes the value of Twitter.
I think some people will lose their accounts because they are suddenly claimed to be “bots/trolls”.
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)
https://www.threads.net/@ElonMusksJet
You can read without a login (if you get a link) but you can’t browse or anything.
I stand corrected, thanks