Billionaire Elon Musk, owner of Twitter, analyzes various measures to financially revive the social platform and one of being would be to put some usernames up for auction.
Usernames are preceded by @ and are unique for each account, since allow their identification. In addition, they are shown in the profile url.
This identifying element is at the center of the latest proposal that Musk has made to the employees of the social network, who have been debating the possibility of auctioning off some of them since December, according to reports. The New York Times.
This idea would be part of Musk’s attempts to obtain income from the platformand follows Telegram, an instant messaging platform that in November opened the sale of some usernames, with payment through cryptocurrencies, indicates Europe Press.
In the case of Telegram, they opted for the sale of short and recognizable usernames, such as @bank, @club, @game and @gift, for personal accounts, public groups and channels.
It is not clear that the plan will prosper on Twitter, as indicated by the sources consulted by the aforementioned medium. Part of the debate is because not all usernames have value.
On the other hand, at the beginning of December Musk announced a cleaning usernames that have not been used on the social network for years, which he estimated at about 1,500 million accounts, in order to make them available to other users. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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