X (old Twitter) is depriving users of rare accounts such as '@x', '@music' and '@sports' one after another



Twitter revised X is proceeding with the acquisition of accounts with rare names, such as

taking over the account '@x' operated by the user . Newly, it became clear that accounts such as '@music' and '@sports', which have been operated by users for 16 years, have been handed over to the X management team.

Elon Musk Swipes Control of Another Twitter Account, This Time @Music | PCMag
https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-swipes-control-of-another-twitter-account-this-time-at-music

X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/x-user-super-pissed-that-musk-ordered-takeover-of-his-music-account/

Software developer Jeremy Vought opened '@music' on the old Twitter in 2007. When '@music' was first established, it was used as an account for promoting live music in the online game 'Second Life', and after Second Life's popularity declined, it was used as an account for posting music-related information. If you check with Wayback Machine, you can see that '@music' had 478,000 followers as of April 2020.



However, on August 4, 2023, Mr. Vought received a notification that '@music' will be under X's control.




'@music' has been renamed to '@musicfan' with a notice from X.



On the other hand, X, which has '@music' under its control, has

opened and started operating an account '@Music' that handles music.



'@Music' posted 'a photo of singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran with the jacket of his album ' X '' and appealed that the account was under the control of X.




The '@Music' account already has more than 11.5 million followers at the time of writing the article. Judging from the number of followers and posting history, it seems that '@Music' has inherited the followers and posts of the official account ' @TwitterMusic ' that posted music information in the Twitter era.

Although Mr. Vought suffered from having his account stolen, ``(Account stealing) was very annoying, but Twitter (X) is still my favorite SNS. Communicate and understand what is going on. There is nothing comparable for this,' he said, indicating his intention to continue using X. Also, Mr. Vought said, ``I canceled Twitter Blue (X Blue). to

In addition, based on the news that the user who operated the account '@x' was deprived of the account by X and changed the account name to '@x12345678998765', Mr. Vought said, 'To' @ x ' I am also considering changing the account name to '@ music12345678998765' to show solidarity.'

A man who has been using '@X' on Twitter since 2007 has his user name taken over by management, no monetary compensation of 1 yen - GIGAZINE



In addition, on the social news site HackerNews, there is also a post saying, ``The account name has been changed to ``@sportz'' because ``@sports'', which has been in operation since 2007, was stolen by X. .



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