X is reportedly selling inactive usernames for $50,000 — The move is the platform’s latest attempt to raise revenue::undefined

@Nonononoki@lemmy.world
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Someone’s gonna buy realDonaldTrump and pretend it’s the real one lmao

Sounds like the intention’s to force existing users/companies to continue using the platform, or he’ll sell their brand to someone else who could damage it.

Uglyhead
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Musk claimed that “vast numbers of handles were consumed by bots/trolls” and that he was “aiming to start freeing those up next month.”

So Phony Stark is going to start taking anyone’s Twitter handle that he considers a troll and selling them.

@beckerist@lemmy.world
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@rish@lemmy.ml
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Someone will buy @ElonMusk just for trolling

Tygr
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These aren’t 3-letter dictionary word .com domains Elon. Nobody will pay that on a service that’s devaluing by the hour.

MamboGator
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The type of people who still follow Elon Musk have proven they’re stupid enough to think this is a good idea, and the number of people who preordered a cybertruck shows that plenty of them have the money to actually do it. As stupid as this all is, I’m 100% sure Elmo Fudd will make at least some money from it.

Because this is somehow our stupid, stupid reality.

I’m sorry, I know this is off-topic, but you mentioned the cyber truck…

…have you seen how ugly and stupid the cyber truck looks? It looks nothing like it’s primo materials; it’s just an ugly stainless steel slab. It’s laughable.

@JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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Pretty much expected. No one really deletes anything. It’s just marked as inactive and hidden from public view. Then the data raping can begin.

@Godric@lemmy.world
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Q: What’s the fastest way to make a social media company worth $20 billion?

A: Start at $55 billion and do whatever the fuck the Muskrat is doing!

It would genuinely funny to watch one of the largest, most socially relevant websites commit suicide in real time, of it wasn’t so sad

This reads more like “twitter.com is reportedly attempting to sell dusty office furniture”.

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Seems like a good time to remind everyone just a few months ago he took two active usernames from their users without warning. Both @x and @music were in use and taken by Musk with no warning and no recompense.

At this rate I see it as completely possible that someone buys one, and the first time they don’t update within whatever Musk feels like is “too long” that day, he takes it back with no warning.

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