In keeping with a report by Twitter, which was acquired by Elon Musk in late October, it wants to extend revenue from the sale of usernames. The Recent York Times.
The outlet quoted “two individuals with knowledge of the plan”.
Username (or handle) replacements will be big business.
Sometimes people get to the social network early and arrange an account with a particular handle in order that they can pester brands or other big entities for hundreds to get the coveted username. Handles are sometimes bought and sold in black markets, the NYT reports.
Twitter had a chaotic few months following the autumn purchase of Musk. He was sued for non-payment of rent and no paying a marketing companyfaced reports of severance payouts for hundreds of laid-off staff weren’t as expectedand launched latest programs comparable to the revamped Twitter Blue.
Twitter reportedly owes $136,260 in unpaid rent for the lawsuit.
Reportedly, the corporate’s headquarters are in Recent York had no toilet paper last week. Twitter saw it too decrease in ad revenue.
92% of the corporate’s revenue got here from promoting in Q1 2022, behind April Quarterly Report.
Musk previously raged about fake and “bot” accounts before buying the corporate and back in December Tweeted“Twitter will soon start freeing up namespace for 1.5 billion accounts.”
“These are obvious account deletions with no tweets and no logging in for years,” he added.
These are obvious account deletions with no tweets and no logging in for years
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022
It also potentially plans so as to add processing of payments from users, based on treasury documents gained through the socket.
Sources have told the NYT that the corporate could also be selling usernames at auction. Twitter rules currently prohibit the sale of usernames.
But now it’s Musk’s company.
There has already been not less than one significant username change. The office of Benjamin Netanyahu, who was recently sworn in (again) as Prime Minister of Israel, initiated the country’s purchase of the @Israel doorknob, based on the Guardiansome 12 years ago.
The newspaper reported that in 2010, when Netanyahu was also serving as prime minister, his office contacted a person named Israel Meléndez, who had arrange an account in 2007 under the pseudonym “Israel”.
Meléndez said Netanyahu sent him direct messages and sold the doorknob to the country for the sum of “five zeros”, although it was against company policy.
Entrepreneur contacted Twitter for comment.
Israel still has the handle. The state bio says “yes, it’s really us.”