The idea that one would sit on @music for 16 years and not have built a unique brand in that time but still care… I think it’s noble he didn’t sell the handle when it went unused. if there was a way for X to act on those who broke tos who did, and act on those who payola’d their way to checkmarks, I would appluad that action in the confines of the product they offer, even if I prefer my social media not as a product but a protocol.
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What a twat.
He sat on it and never used it?
Fuck him.
X did the right thing here.
dude seems to have found success with a non profit, ironically called, life happens, that does life insurance education? judgments of that industry aside, good for him, and hard to tell what side of that they on from a quick dig. I can’t imagine any of these smo optimized account producers think they totally in the clear when they land on an optimized handle, After 16 years of head turning from algo overlords to preying on the lowest common denominator who types the word music into the search bar, it’s understandable to be surprised. Can’t knock the hustle, but you’d think in that process you would look for a url, and find music . com taken by the industry and start to craft a brand that you promote through being @music
So, he did do something with @ music?
nah “life happened”
he didn’t sell it which should be applauded, most accounts like this on legacy social media, like @dogs or @birb have changed hands multiple times despite it being against tos.
Very silly to not sell it.
Money is money, and he wasn’t doing anything with the handle.
Wasted real estate.
the whole legacy system has been sus for quite some time, Elon gonna piss a lot of people off, and hopefully this is just a start, but it will make their product better, even if by the time that’s all fixed, and all the people doing favors and accepting diners and under table cash are fired, protocols, and a distributed system, that by nature can’t build the same expectations that legacy new media falsely used to sell the public to advertisers, have matured to replace the whole thing.
Wise buyers are aware of the tos and occur the risk, so reportedly the highest real offer was $5k