{"id":169161,"date":"2023-08-07T02:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T07:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/elon-musk-and-x-are-snatching-up-old-usernames-first-it-was-x-now-more-are-slowly-being-taken-over"},"modified":"2023-08-07T02:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T07:23:14","slug":"elon-musk-and-x-are-snatching-up-old-usernames-first-it-was-x-now-more-are-slowly-being-taken-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/elon-musk-and-x-are-snatching-up-old-usernames-first-it-was-x-now-more-are-slowly-being-taken-over","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk And X Are Snatching Up Old Usernames. First, It Was @X. Now, More Are Slowly Being Taken Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.elon-musk-and-x-are-snatching-up-old-usernames-first-it-was-x-now-more-are-slowly-being-taken-over.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire<strong class=\"\"> Elon Musk<\/strong> acquired social media platform <strong class=\"\">Twitter<\/strong>, which he has since rebranded to <strong class=\"\">X<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/23\/04\/31810229\/elon-musk-bought-twitter-1-year-ago-a-look-back-at-whats-happened-since-and-what-could-be-next\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">for $44 billion in 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the acquisition, Musk now controls the platform and has the power to make changes and, in some cases, snatch away usernames that people have been using for decades.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">What Happened:<\/strong> When Twitter announced its rebrand to X, some users pointed out the interesting fact that one person owned the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/X\">@X<\/a> handle on the platform,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/23\/07\/33383884\/twitter-snatches-x-handle-at-last-but-how-much-did-elon-musk-pay-for-it\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"> leading to theories of a buyout<\/a> by Musk to get the one-letter username.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk acquired social media platform Twitter, which he has since rebranded to X, for $44 billion in 2022. With the acquisition, Musk now controls the platform and has the power to make changes and, in some cases, snatch away usernames that people have been using for decades. What Happened: When Twitter announced its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}