#SocialMedia #Twitter #Musk: ""I'm a software developer," Vaught told Ars. "And I was trying to come up with the right way to use that audience and do something with it."
But Vaught never had the time to focus on leveraging the @music audience, only ever benefiting from the account when companies occasionally sent him free perks like headphones in trade for promotions. Occasionally, buyers would approach Vaught, trying to tempt him to sell the @music handle, but the biggest offer was only around $5,000. Vaught said he was never interested because he knew that selling his handle violated Twitter's terms of service, and he figured there was more value in keeping the account.
Now X has taken the account away. In the email Vaught posted on X, the platform told Vaught that "the user handle associated with the account @music will be affiliated with X Corp."
"Accordingly, your handle will be changed to a new user handle," the email said.
If you visit @music now, it has 11 million followers, which—judging from an Internet Archive snapshot—appears to be generated from merging the now-defunct @TwitterMusic account into Vaught's @music account."