Twitter User Who Had the ‘X’ Handle Says Was Kicked Out of His Account by Elon Musk: ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’
Well, that’s awkward!
Upon Elon Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter to “X,” what he claims will be the “everything app,” Twitter’s (er… X’s) owner immediately changed the @Twitter handle to @X, naturally.
Except there was one problem — the @x handle already belonged to someone named Gene X Hwang, who was promptly booted from his account without any warning or permission, he says, and instead given a new handle of @x12345678998765.
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“Some amount of money or compensation doesn’t seem like it would be too big a deal for them,” Hwang told Insider.