The move is the platform’s latest attempt to raise revenue
Elon Musk’s X has started selling off dormant Twitter account handles for a whopping $50,000.
While the company’s website still suggests that it “cannot release inactive usernames at this time,” an internal group known as @HandleTeam has reportedly started working on a marketplace for unused handles, Forbes reports. Current sales have happened through emailed solicitations to potential buyers requesting the flat fee.
In November of last year in a thread about offering amnesty to previously suspended accounts Musk claimed that “vast numbers of handles were consumed by bots/trolls” and that he was “aiming to start freeing those up next month.
