Elon Musk dropped on users over the weekend that Twitter was going to be rebranded as X. In the transition, many users noted that the @X handle was already taken by someone.
The person that registered the @X username was Gene X. Hwang who signed up for the platform more than 16 years ago. This week, Musk and X Corp.
took over the @X handle and seemingly didn’t give Hwang a choice. “[I] got an email basically saying they are taking it,” Hwang said in an e-mail exchange with Mashable.
Hwang had previously talked to the outlet who said they were awaiting Musk or X Corp. to contact him about his username. Hwang, who is a co-founder of Orange Photography, said the e-mail informing him he was losing his account came from the generic “support@twitter.com” address and not from anyone specifically working at the company.
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