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.
I’m sure this wont create an incentive to create thousands of accounts in order to squat on them.
Elon isn’t buying them to sell, he’s just taking them.
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.
Anything to get those user numbers up