To what end? Elon spent $44b and destroyed an entire company just so he could ban the guy who was tracking his flights. You think he gives a shit about the guy who has the username he wants?
In any other situation, sure, you’d take to Twitter and start rustling as many jimmies as you could in hopes of shaming the big bad company into doing the right thing. But in this case, Twitter itself is the big bad company, and the guy you’d ultimately be complaining to/about/against also owns the platform and is probably the only guy can give you your username back, and you can probably guess about how well that’s gonna go.
According to the ars technica article, he was not squatting, he had been actively using it for 16 years. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/twitter-took-x-handle-from-longtime-user-and-only-offered-him-some-merch/
This guy is taking it way too nicely. I’d be shouting expletives from every account I owned.
To what end? Elon spent $44b and destroyed an entire company just so he could ban the guy who was tracking his flights. You think he gives a shit about the guy who has the username he wants?
In any other situation, sure, you’d take to Twitter and start rustling as many jimmies as you could in hopes of shaming the big bad company into doing the right thing. But in this case, Twitter itself is the big bad company, and the guy you’d ultimately be complaining to/about/against also owns the platform and is probably the only guy can give you your username back, and you can probably guess about how well that’s gonna go.