Twitter took Gene X Hwang’s username and only offered him “some merch.”

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    1 year ago

    That’s an exremly shitty thing to do. I don’t know how anyone can still be behind this company…

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      1 year ago

      While I agree, no one should be behind this shit company, it’s quite a standard thing to do.

      Literally every social media platform has the ability to reset a users username so they can free it up. It happens all the time.

      Are you famous enough? Cool, contact any company about taking over the username “Jake” and they’ll give you it. Doesn’t matter that the other dudes name is Jake. Doesn’t matter they had it first. Doesn’t matter that it isn’t a trademarked name.

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        It didn’t work for Beyoncé. She tried to take the brand, Blu Ivy off an Australian company so her daughter could have it. Australia said get fucked.

        An American wedding planner also had the name, and America told Beyoncé to get fucked too.

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      It’s not really that shitty in context with Musk’s everyday doings. I’m honestly not surprised at all.

      If this was the worst of him, I’d be able to handle it (even though it indeed is a shitty thing to do and devalues Twitter handles [which is imo actually a good thing]).

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        1 year ago

        Musk’s everyday doings

        Speaking of his everyday doings. Has anyone investigated all those underage illegal migrant children he has in his bathroom shower? Or was that just a rumor started on “the app formerly known as twitter”?