According to foreign technology media The Telegraph, Elon Musk (Elon Musk) is advancing the rebranding of Twitter, without paying too much, taking over "@x" from San Francisco photographer Gene X Hwang twitter account.
It is rumored that this user registered a Twitter account named @X a long time ago. After Musk changed Twitter's name to X, he tried to sell the name to Musk for $1 million. But Musk decided to buy it for zero yuan, first block his account, take the name over, and then assign him an account with a suffix name.
The photographer entered Twitter in 2007 and registered under the name "@x". In an interview, he expressed his willingness to sell the account.
However, on Tuesday he received an email from Twitter informing him that control of his account would be handed over to Twitter .
As financial compensation, Company X provided Hwang with X-related products and the opportunity to meet with the company's top management. “Company X did send an email stating that @x is the property of the company,” Hwang said in the interview.
Twitter's terms of service state that users have no legal rights to their usernames and can delete accounts in cases of trademark infringement .
In fact, after Twitter changed its name to X, it does not actually have the X brand trademark. Currently, Microsoft owns the intellectual property rights of X in the field of video games; and Meta has the intellectual property rights of "X" in social media.
Hwang's Twitter account was subsequently changed to "@x12345678998765". Hwang did not express his anger, tweeting: "The ending is acceptable, so be it."
Hwang has previously expressed his willingness to sell the account at a suitable price. Most single-letter Twitter accounts were created in the early days of the website, so they think it is very valuable.