Elon Musk is a bully

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!

What short, catchy username did Musk's company change Hwang's handle to? @x12345678998765.

It could have been worse.

They could have named him "X Æ A-12" 😵‍💫

Man...

I was pretty bummed when I heard that Twitter was going to die. There are some cool moments in history that happened on Twitter. It was a hell of a ride, but the writing was on the wall well before Elon bought it. It was time to go.

But not like this.

It deserved a good death. Not to have it's corpse raped on full display over and over.

A lot of very talented people committed so much time and energy to this. When it launched, it was a novel idea and they really forged some roads in our understanding of how we communicate and receive information.

It was clear at the end that it would never produce the kind of ROI on advertising to make investors happy, and that Nazis had clearly taken over the platform and used it to bastardize journalism further. It was time to go to pasture.

But not like this.

Hopefully its mutilated, humiliated and desiccated corpse will feed the growth of the federated web.

I hope you find peace, sweet prince.

Shitty social media website does shitty thing and continues enshittification full throttle.

Well I went ahead and did a mastadon. No clue what I am doing, but.. Woohoo?

I'm chamrsdeluxe@mastadon.social there too I guess. Idk

What short, catchy username did Musk's company change Hwang's handle to? @x12345678998765.

That's some really !funnyandsad material...

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.

As much as this sucks, this person has no rights to their name and never did. Stop using the platform and giving it attention!

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.

Musk is an overpaid idiot, but anyone has to expect not to have any real rights on any website.

Imagine how amazing the PR would have been if the title had been: "User gets spectator seating for a SpaceX launch in return for lost handle"

Another example of Musk being a cunt, what a surprise

More X-crement. Stop wasting your time on this shit site.

I can hear his theme song now.....

X gon' take it from ya (uh), he gon' take it from ya X gon' take it from ya, he gon' take it from ya

First we gonna rock, then we gonna roll Then we let it pop, go, let it go

This can be done with any centralized social media. You don't know your username.

I doubt X has much money to spare to give to people considering how they hemorrhage money.