X, formally known as Twitter, takes over (at)music account from user

by mystcbon 8/6/2023, 11:24 AMwith 4 comments

by trelaneon 8/6/2023, 4:25 PM

It's not exactly new that Twitter and others take over handles.

https://twitter.com/jeremyvaught/status/1687537767671070737

The lesson isn't that Musk is Bad (in this instance anyway) so much as your existence on a platform continues to be at that platform's discretion.

by whoknowswhat11on 8/6/2023, 1:49 PM

The subhead is "X user quits paying for Twitter Blue to protest X commandeering his account." That may not matter much to Twitter.

I'd lean towards a subhead of x signals product direction while angering some users.

One good thing is Twitter does move followers etc

by rvnxon 8/6/2023, 3:56 PM

The end of the story is that the guy is now a big Elon Musk fan.

So... nothing to do from Twitter's perspective I guess.

+ The account didn't seem to be active recently anyway