Elon Musk has created a new logo for Twitter. Credit: GONZALO FUENTES/REUTERS x Twitter without paying the owner as part of the social network's ongoing rebrand.
Gene X Hwang, a photographer from San Francisco, stood behind the social network's pseudonym “@x” until evening Tuesday, when it was changed to the official X account, Mr. Musk's new Twitter name.
Mr. Hwang said he was willing to participate in the sale of @x's account, which was registered in 2007. , but that he just received an email on Tuesday saying the company was taking over.
He told The Telegraph: “They just took it to the point – sort of what I thought might happen.”
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Mr. with company management, but offered no financial incentive.
He said in an email, “They sent an email saying it was a property essentially from 'x'.”
Before and after: X Twitter account
Twitter users have no legal rights over their usernames, but the company's terms of service say it will only delete people's accounts if there is a trademark infringement.
It is not clear what trademarks Mr. Musk's X owns, although he owns the domain name x.com, which now links to twitter.com.
The company has migrated Mr. Musk's account Hwana to a new handle.
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Mr. Hwang tweeted under his new alias “@x12345678998765” on Wednesday morning, “All's well that ends well”.
Mr. Hwang said he was offered some X items in exchange for his Twitter handle
Before they were shared, Mr. Hwang said he was willing to sell them for the right price .< /p>
He said, “I think I would sell if I fit. I guess it depends on the offer.”
One-letter Twitter accounts—mostly created in the site's early months, before most people even heard of the social network—are considered the most valuable on the service.
In the past, one-letter accounts were thought to have passed in the hands of tens of thousands of dollars. One user, @n, said he was offered $50,000 (£39,000) for his account.
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> — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2023
“Bro, you will be a millionaire,” one Twitter user tweeted about @x earlier this week, after Mr. Musk changed the Twitter logo and branding to X.
Although he was run by Mr. Hwang, @x's account had about 30,000 followers and was set as private, which meant users couldn't see his tweets or follow the account without permission.
Many single-letter accounts have been banned, possibly due to multiple attempts to hack them.
Elon Musk's Traveling Business
Despite Twitter's corporate rebranding, the company's official account still has the handle @Twitter.
Mr. Musk aims to turn X into a “super app” that includes not only Twitter's existing social networking and messaging features, but also payments and banking, as well as video.
< p>His commitment to changing the company's logo included trying to remove the Twitter sign from the company's San Francisco headquarters, though police thwarted his efforts on Monday.
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