Last month, Elon Musk announced that his social network Twitter will soon be deleting 1.5 billion inactive accounts on the platform. to make usernames reusable hitherto unavailable to Internet users. Now we know a little more about how these aliases can be passed on to users.
Indeed, the New York Times last December, People working at Twitter discussed selling their usernames at auction. The report, based on anonymous sources close to these conversations, said this was not conclusive andWe don’t know exactly where the arguments are.
You may have to pay to get your dream username
Until now, The easiest way to get the twitter username you wanted was to follow it. and take the chance when you save yourself. The task wasn’t easy, because if the latter is highly sought after, it’s a safe bet that a bot also watches to automatically take over the same username.
Selling usernames can therefore avoid mass hijacking by robots, and some can take the name they choose if they really want to. Again, an auction can create a huge inequality between users the most humble users who can afford to invest and not spend a dime on Twitter to have their dream name.
But the idea is rather strange, as you are reminded that Twitter’s policy does not allow the buying and selling of usernames. However, despite this rule, people can buy Twitter usernames that have been coveted on the black market for years. Elon Musk can therefore revive this application himself, if his company decides to offer some of the most coveted usernames to the highest bidder. We’ll probably have to wait a little longer to find out what approach Twitter will take, which is currently facing a massive leak of personal data from 235 million users.
