Another plan, under the direction of Elon Musk, has emerged that Twitter is considering to generate revenue. According to the information transferred, the company plans to sell the usernames by auction.
Twitter, which has been under the management of Elon Musk since October 28, hosted many changes and radical decisions. In December, there was no sharing or login for years. 1.5 billion accounts will void usernames It turned out that the platform, which explained what it was planning to do with these usernames.
Closing 1.5 billion accounts will make usernames available to others again. While Twitter still doesn’t have a definitive statement on when it will do this ‘cleaning’, some plans have emerged today.
The vacant usernames will be sold:
- Elon Musk’s announcement on December 9: “Twitter will soon start freeing up the namespace of 1.5 billion accounts.”
According to information shared by The New York Times, Musk management, He was considering selling usernames to Twitter to generate extra income. Moreover, the idea was based on December, when it was announced that 1.5 billion usernames would be wasted.
The sale of these usernames would be via an online auction. While it is not known whether Twitter will turn the plan into reality, there has been no official statement from the company about the allegations.
A similar idea came from another head the day Elon Musk made the announcement:
“A live auction of the top 100 usernames on Twitter Spaces would be great.”