Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For Upwards Of $50,000

Can't steal something you don't own. And people should never forget you don't own anything on these platforms.
- Can’t steal something you don’t own
  🤔 think you got that backwards?

50k for a username on a dieing platform.
Something something, fools and their money...

I mean… people buying it are fools and we don’t know if anyone has actually done so. The person selling it might be an idiot, but is it foolish to ask for money? Doesn’t hurt, especially if you need it desperately.

So anyone who hasn't logged in for 30 days is considered inactive and their account may be subject to being seized and sold? Fuck that shit.

They can have my useless handle, i already purged and deleted my Twitter account.

Explanation from my point of view:
at work I use Edge and it has the page with the clickbait at start. If I click, then the news is in the msn page with no direct link to the source (or hidden in a way that's not immediate)
Most times, at least in my country, the source is paywalled while the MSN version isn't

At this stage it's starting to look like a Ponzi scheme. Squeeze out as much as possible before it sinks?

How long before the X-NFT campaign?

Maybe if your account is big enough to make money off TwitX some day, you'll be paid in Dogecoin.
- That would be great, even without a real use, DOGE is still above 0 USD. Just imagine if it did have some use! 🚀🌝

Basically, use Twitter or they let people impersonate you.

$50,000 is nothing to pretend to be a major newspaper and ruin their reputation.

Fuck Musk.

Is it better to periodically clear unused handles and have them snatched up by bots or should they sell them? To me selling them gives people a chance to get the handle they want and stops bots from grabbing up popular handles.

If I want the handle fizz I'll pay about $10 if someone wants to pay more then they want it more than me. I'd rather be able to bid on it than have it grabbed by a bot.

You think those are mutually exclusive? What's to stop a bot/bad actor with some money from buying "unused" handles?
I guess this isn't the worst idea he's had for twitter but it seems like a short term money grab while the ship is sinking. By his own valuation twitter is worth half what it was a year ago and still not profitable, selling usernames won't change that
If I want the handle fizz I’ll pay about $10 if someone wants to pay more then they want it more than me.
No, if someone is willing to pay more than you they may want it less but also value their money less because they have a lot of it, or they may think they can use it to make more money than you are willing to pay for it. capital=power, not desire
- In my opinion that still results in the handle going to someone who wants it more.
Maybe just don't recycle them, as was the policy until now
- Because it's their platform and you aren't using the name. They don't want all the good handles stuck on dead users.

Liquidation has commenced.

I don't see the issue of this. Usernames aren't property.

I probably should sell mine for 49,999 and save whoever want my handle a buck.