Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007
arstechnica.com
Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him "some merch."

Hwang confirmed to Ars today that “there was no financial compensation” offered to him. The company offered “to switch the @x account and its history/followers etc to a new handle once I select one that is available,” Hwang told us. “They also offered some merch and to meet with the management team as well.”

  • boomer478English
    53·
    1 year ago

    I remember reading ages ago about how highly sought after and how much single-character twitter handles would potentially sell for, since there’s only 26 in the entire world. Now all this person got was a t-shirt.

  • DirkMcCallahanEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Reminds me of that time when Tom Brady threw his 600th touchdown pass, Mike Evans gave the ball to a fan, and the team got this insanely valuable piece of sports history back from the guy and gave him a few jerseys in return.