Beauty & The Beast: Threads Verses Twitter (Now X) Over User Handles
When Instagram launched Threads, to the surprise of many the new social network by Meta surpassed 100 million users in less than a week.
Another pleasant surprise was the fact that Instagram did not seize the user handle @threads@instagram.com, which would allow them to obtain @threads@threads.net as an official account.
Instead they simply created @threadsapp@instagram.com & @threadsapp@threads.net, respectively, & allowed the current owner of the Threads handle (which is a woman’s fashion retail store) to keep the current handle on both social networks.
Compare & contrast that with how Twitter simply seized the @x@twitter.com handle without warning from the previous owner.
The owner of the @x Twitter handle confirmed that the company, now known as X, took over his account without warning or financial compensation, telling him the handle is a property of X. The handle had previously belonged to Gene X Hwang of the corporate photography and videography studio Orange Photography. In a letter, the company formerly known as Twitter thanked Hwang for his loyalty and offered him a selection of X merchandise and a tour of X’s HQ, as a “reflection of our appreciation.” (Via TechCrunch)
While @elonmusk@twitter.com is legally entitled to obtain the user handle without compensation (as he owns X, formally Twitter), his lack of consideration reveals how little he regards the users on his platform.
It’s akin to a landlord seizing a furnished television, only to compensate the tenants later on by giving them a radio.
It is still to early to tell whether Threads will surpass X (formally known as Twitter), but I would not be surprised if Threads replaces Twitter as the “pulse of the planet” (at least among the elites) in the not so distant future.
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