Elon Musk Accused of Taking Over @x Account for Free, Original User: Only Received Product and Email Notifications

The Telegraph reports that Elon Musk recently took over the @x account on Twitter as part of the platform's rebranding plan. However, it has now emerged that X company only offered some company merchandise to the owner of the @x account and had a meeting with him, without any financial compensation or purchase involved.

Account Holder Notified of Takeover Unilaterally

According to reports, the original account holder was Gene X Hwang, a photographer based in San Francisco. He received an official email notification on Tuesday evening claiming that the account was about to be taken over, emphasizing that @x essentially belongs to "X".

Prior to transferring the account, Hwang had expressed willingness to sell his @x account registered since February 2007 for a fee, but X Company did not respond.

Hwang told The Telegraph explained:

They simply assumed that I should accept this, which was within my expectations.

It is understood that Twitter users do not have legal rights to their usernames, but the company's terms of service state that only in cases of trademark infringement will an account be deleted or taken over, hence the legitimacy of this matter cannot be clearly defined.

Single-Letter Accounts Are Valuable

After receiving the notification, Twitter promptly moved Hwang's account to a new username @x12345678998765. Since the account was protected earlier this year, it has been posting many bizarre sentences generated by AI and yesterday posted "All is well, happy ending," leaving more questions.

After all, it remains unknown whether Hwang has actually received compensation, leading many to jokingly suggest that Hwang may have already become the next millionaire.

It is claimed that most single-letter accounts on Twitter, often created in the early days of the social media platform, hold significant value due to their elder status, with other single-letter accounts like @n having been traded for tens of thousands of dollars in the past.

The Man of High Execution and Controversy

Always seemingly impulsive, Elon Musk, since acquiring the communications giant Twitter, has implemented several radical and controversial reform policies, including firing 80% of internal staff and introducing Twitter post reading restrictions.

Of course, the latest change is the renaming of "Twitter" to "X," as seen in his tweet, where Musk is attempting to transform "X" into a "multi-service integrated application" similar to WeChat; in addition to Twitter's existing social networking and communication functions, it is also expected to introduce payment, banking services, and multimedia functions.

Over the next few months, we will significantly increase our ability to communicate and manage the entire financial world. The name Twitter is meaningless in this context, so we must bid farewell to this bird.