Elon Musk Takes Over @X Handle & Offers Previous Owner Merch As Twitter Handle Gets Deactivated
deadline.comElon Musk dropped on users over the weekend that Twitter was going to be rebranded as X. In the transition, many users noted that the @X handle was already taken by someone.
The person that registered the @X username was Gene X. Hwang who signed up for the platform more than 16 years ago. This week, Musk and X Corp.
took over the @X handle and seemingly didn’t give Hwang a choice. “[I] got an email basically saying they are taking it,” Hwang said in an e-mail exchange with Mashable.
Hwang had previously talked to the outlet who said they were awaiting Musk or X Corp. to contact him about his username. Hwang, who is a co-founder of Orange Photography, said the e-mail informing him he was losing his account came from the generic “support@twitter.com” address and not from anyone specifically working at the company.
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