Twitter mulls selling usernames through online auctions
Twitter is planning to sell username s online to generate additional revenue, reported The New York Times. The auction would let users bid for username s or handles, though it still isn't clear if the idea might go through and be implemented. In a tweet last month, Twitter CEO, Elon Musk said that Twitter would begin freeing 1.5 billion usernames, as inactive users are removed and deleted from the platform. Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022 The platform's username squatting policy, however, doesn't allow usernames to be bought and sold but users had found a way around the policy as they traded usernames in the black market. The news report comes right after Telegram announced that it might introduce an auction for username s on a marketplace called TON blockchain. Read Google argues it doesn't block rivals in bid to kill US government antitrust lawsuit Musk...