Elon Musk Reportedly Took Over Another User's Twitter Account

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2020. As Twitter’s newest board member and largest shareholder, Musk is already floating suggestions for changes he’d like to see on the social media platform. In a series of tweets late Saturday, April 9, 2022, Musk said that the company should include an “authentication checkmark” as a feature of its Twitter Blue premium subscription service, which costs $3 a month.InternationalIndiaAfricaEarlier, US entrepreneur Elon Musk posted a screenshot of a sidebar of the Twitter app to demonstrate the site’s new subscription feature and inadvertently revealed another interesting detail: a thumbnail image of his second page profile.Twitter’s chief executive Elon Musk has another account “@e”, one of Twitter’s rare and highly coveted one-letter usernames, Zoë Schiffer, managing editor of internet publication, the Platformer, has revealed.© Twitter/Zoë SchifferScreenshotScreenshotAccording to Schiffer, Musk used his position as chief executive and owner of Twitter to take over a user’s handle shortly after he bought the platform last year.The @e account hasn’t tweeted in a while, so there isn’t much information there. However, there are a few clues that Musk could be the one. Three people are being followed by the account at present: NASA, Elon Musk (@elonmusk), and LAist.The account was created in November 2022 and has 1,908 followers.Earlier, media reported that Twitter has considered selling high-value usernames to make more money.AmericasElon Musk Reveals Government Read Twitter Users’ Private Messages17 April, 10:06 GMTIn late October 2022, Musk finalized his $44Bln acquisition of Twitter, a US company founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. After the takeover, Musk changed the company’s day-to-day operations, including sacking Twitter executives who were responsible for the platform’s privacy, cybersecurity and censorship, as well as about two-thirds of Twitter’s employees.