Musk takes @X without paying owner

Less than a year after Twitter launched in 2006, Gene X Hwang secured the @X handle on Twitter and over the years attracted over 56,000 followers.

Yesterday, his account vanished, replaced by a "Nothing to see here" message.

Today, @X is in the hand of Elon Musk, who simply took @X, deleted its contents and copied over @Twitter's content and its 65.9 million followers. — Read the rest