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Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it. (mashable.com)

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[-] li10@feddit.uk 35 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s not like they ever bought that name from Twitter so there’s no real argument that they actually own it, even if they’d ever bought the checkmark BS.

Money and a rename would have been a goodwill gesture, and expecting any goodwill from this version of twitter is insanity.

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