New Twitter boss Elon Musk wants to make his social network profitable.
To do this, the billionaire did not hesitate to lay off half of his employees and auction off the company's furniture.
According to the
New York Times
, he would now consider giving away usernames that are little or not used.
And it is at auction, again, that these sought-after identifiers should be sold.
Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022
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The goal is to release around 1.5 billion usernames, Elon Musk said on Twitter on December 9.
He had indicated in another publication that would be targeted accounts “without tweets and without connection for years”.
When will these auctions take place?
And in what form?
For the time being, these questions remain unanswered.
The new boss of the company should say more very soon.
Sales of usernames have long been organized on the black market.
The auctions called for by Elon Musk would therefore be a way for the blue bird social network to generate new income by supplying this buoyant trade itself.
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