Elon Musk has taken away the @X login from a Twitter user, which he had been using for 16 years

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has surprised the public again. This time, in the process of rebranding the social network, the billionaire simply took away the @X login that the user had been using since 2007. The user was redirected to a new account @x12345678998765 without any warning or compensation.

Jin Hwang from San Francisco, who had the login for 16 years, said he was very surprised when he received an email from Twitter. It said that his @X account now belonged to Musk’s company. According to Hwang, there was no warning. «Well, I guess that’s the way it should be,» he said philosophically.

After that, Musk’s company transferred all the followers from @Twitter to @X, and the old @Twitter account became private and lost all its posts and followers.

Hwang had to «move» to a new account @x12345678998765. He reacted with a smile: «All's well that ends well.» In an interview with the media, Hwang noted that he did not receive any financial compensation from Twitter. He was offered some merchandise and a meeting with the management if he wanted one.

The case of Twitter and Hwang raises questions about the transparency and integrity of social media processes, and highlights the urgent need for clearer regulation of such situations.

It is worth noting that this is not the first scandalous case after Twitter’s transformation into X. On the day of the logo change, the user @kxlider, who had been using a similar logo for two years, said that Musk had simply stolen his identity without explaining anything. In turn, some users pointed out that the appearance of the X logo on Twitter and the @kxlider profile is Unicode, which means it cannot belong to anyone.