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

by mystcb on 8/6/2023, 11:24:04 AM with 4 comments

  • by trelane on 8/6/2023, 4:25:14 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 whoknowswhat11 on 8/6/2023, 1:49:25 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 rapnie on 8/7/2023, 8:02:57 AM

    See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37016876

  • by rvnx on 8/6/2023, 3:56:23 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