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.
I didn’t see that anywhere in the article. What is there talks about Twitter taking handles it considers not used enough away from the people who registered them and selling them for a profit.
“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.)”
I seem to have misread this section as musk suggesting this but it’s actually just some random user suggesting it to musk.
The article talks about creating a marketplace for users to sell usernames to each other and twitter getting a cut of that.
Yeah 100% cut. Ask the former @music kid
I didn’t see that anywhere in the article. What is there talks about Twitter taking handles it considers not used enough away from the people who registered them and selling them for a profit.
“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.)”
I seem to have misread this section as musk suggesting this but it’s actually just some random user suggesting it to musk.