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> Why would Elon do this if he knows full well the names X-Code and Codex are already taken? Steal their Twitter usernames anyway, just like he did mine.

Forgeties79 6mo ago
Story time please lol
- ValentineC 6mo ago
  My @valentine got changed to @valentine_ without my consent. https://web.archive.org/web/20150822195811/twitter.com/valentine https://web.archive.org/web/20150822195811/twitter.com/valen... https://twitter.com/valentine_ https://twitter.com/valentine_ (If any lawyers read this and feel up for taking this on contingency, I don't think I'm difficult to contact.)
  - alasano 6mo ago
    Wow and it's not even used. I guess they took it to resell on their handle marketplace?
    - croddin 6mo ago
      Was likely for a grok avatar named valentine (https://grok.com/valentine https://grok.com/valentine) but they used https://x.com/v https://x.com/v instead which only ever made two posts all in October 2025
  - c-linkage 6mo ago
    He probably had plans to use it for some sort of Ender's Game crap but then realized that grok wasn't smart enough to do it.
    - XargonEnder 6mo ago
      The word Grok comes from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land where the main character is Valentine.
    - ETH_start 6mo ago
      It's extremely unlikely Musk was personally involved in any way in the decision on the username.
      - petesergeant 6mo ago
        In a normal business? Sure. When it comes to Musk and Twitter? Less sure.
        mghackerlady 6mo ago
        Add grok to that list, it's pretty much his pet project
    - mcintyre1994 6mo ago
      More likely is that they took a bunch of good usernames to sell - if you pay for their most expensive subscription one of the features is that you can rent a better username now.
  - handfuloflight 6mo ago
    Did you actually own it though, per their TOS? What title was granted, if so? Also, and no offense intended truly, I think your having a grand total of 2 followers after 19 years was apart of their risk calculus in this seizure.
    - ValentineC 6mo ago
      > Also, and no offense intended truly, I think your having a grand total of 2 followers after 19 years was apart of their risk calculus in this seizure. My account was hijacked via domain/DNS takeover around the time it was acquired by fElon (due to both Crazy Domains and Twitter support's incompetence — both parties removed 2FA from my accounts, even despite me telling Crazy Domains specifically never to do so). I managed to recover both accounts after kicking up a fuss, but the hijacker was midway through an 3rd party account wiping script, and I'd lost all my followers because of that. I had 33,300+ tweets in 2015, and a lot of that was private interaction with friends.
      - ilikehurdles 6mo ago
        couldn't your name have been changed by your hijacker and sold?
    - tart-lemonade 6mo ago
      Twitter's official position is that accounts/usernames are not assets of their users (this isn't an Elon-era argument, from what I understand). I found this out when they argued in Alex Jones' bankruptcy hearings that his account should not be repossessed/auctioned off, an argument Alex supported since that's where he's been moving his audience over to to keep the cash rolling in no matter what happens. https://fortune.com/2024/11/27/x-twitter-elon-musk-account-ownership-alex-jones-bankruptcy/ https://fortune.com/2024/11/27/x-twitter-elon-musk-account-o...
    - Forgeties79 6mo ago
      It can’t be that hard for you to think of something digital that you (don’t) own and how you would feel if a comparable situation happened to you. A TOS isn’t some magical shield from legitimate complaints and scrutiny any more than “it’s the law” makes something morally right.
  - Culonavirus 6mo ago
    > lawyers Best I can do is pretend to be a lawyer and forward all of ur stuff to ChatGPT Free. U down?
  - 4gotunameagain 6mo ago
    Turns out that when you are using some oligarch's platform, you don't own jack. This is digital feudalism, and the billionaires have seized the means of communication.
    - pembrook 6mo ago
      Billionaires have always owned the means of communication (just look at the Salzbergers, Murdochs, etc). Digital decentralized protocols (smtp, http, etc) were the first time this wasn’t true. But you [we] voluntarily moved your communication off of open internet protocols onto private ad-based platforms. Of course you don’t own anything there, you never did. The billionaires didn’t “seize” anything. You happily sold yourself out for a few clicks of less friction and an easier shot at digital fame by going “viral” on social media company land. If this isn’t a much bigger indictment of the collective (who after decades still could not agree on a non-elitist, human understandable protocol that didn’t require a CS degree to use) than it is of the entrepreneurs who solved all the problems the collective refused to, I don’t know how else to get though to you.
      - mghackerlady 6mo ago
        they didn't ever own radio, as evident by AM radio still being crazy and ham still being around
        pelotron 6mo ago
        One of the reasons why I got my HAM license this year was specifically to have a means of communication that required no infrastructure. The HAM community is also very similar to the OSS community in many respects w/r/t constantly developing new free ways to use their spectrum.
        mghackerlady 6mo ago
        I want to get a HAM license (it seems like a nerd rite of passage) but don't really want to get one if I'm never going to use it, which seems like it could end up the case since the HAM community seems to be comprised of mostly middle aged men, which tend not to have the greatest opinions about me (a young transgender woman) and aren't afraid to expect me to agree with them. Also in the current political climate it seems like a bad idea to dox myself

Forgeties79 6mo ago

Story time please lol

ValentineC 6mo ago
My @valentine got changed to @valentine_ without my consent. https://web.archive.org/web/20150822195811/twitter.com/valentine https://web.archive.org/web/20150822195811/twitter.com/valen... https://twitter.com/valentine_ https://twitter.com/valentine_ (If any lawyers read this and feel up for taking this on contingency, I don't think I'm difficult to contact.)
- alasano 6mo ago
  Wow and it's not even used. I guess they took it to resell on their handle marketplace?
  - croddin 6mo ago
    Was likely for a grok avatar named valentine (https://grok.com/valentine https://grok.com/valentine) but they used https://x.com/v https://x.com/v instead which only ever made two posts all in October 2025
- c-linkage 6mo ago
  He probably had plans to use it for some sort of Ender's Game crap but then realized that grok wasn't smart enough to do it.
  - XargonEnder 6mo ago
    The word Grok comes from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land where the main character is Valentine.
  - ETH_start 6mo ago
    It's extremely unlikely Musk was personally involved in any way in the decision on the username.
    - petesergeant 6mo ago
      In a normal business? Sure. When it comes to Musk and Twitter? Less sure.
      - mghackerlady 6mo ago
        Add grok to that list, it's pretty much his pet project
  - mcintyre1994 6mo ago
    More likely is that they took a bunch of good usernames to sell - if you pay for their most expensive subscription one of the features is that you can rent a better username now.
- handfuloflight 6mo ago
  Did you actually own it though, per their TOS? What title was granted, if so? Also, and no offense intended truly, I think your having a grand total of 2 followers after 19 years was apart of their risk calculus in this seizure.
  - ValentineC 6mo ago
    > Also, and no offense intended truly, I think your having a grand total of 2 followers after 19 years was apart of their risk calculus in this seizure. My account was hijacked via domain/DNS takeover around the time it was acquired by fElon (due to both Crazy Domains and Twitter support's incompetence — both parties removed 2FA from my accounts, even despite me telling Crazy Domains specifically never to do so). I managed to recover both accounts after kicking up a fuss, but the hijacker was midway through an 3rd party account wiping script, and I'd lost all my followers because of that. I had 33,300+ tweets in 2015, and a lot of that was private interaction with friends.
    - ilikehurdles 6mo ago
      couldn't your name have been changed by your hijacker and sold?
  - tart-lemonade 6mo ago
    Twitter's official position is that accounts/usernames are not assets of their users (this isn't an Elon-era argument, from what I understand). I found this out when they argued in Alex Jones' bankruptcy hearings that his account should not be repossessed/auctioned off, an argument Alex supported since that's where he's been moving his audience over to to keep the cash rolling in no matter what happens. https://fortune.com/2024/11/27/x-twitter-elon-musk-account-ownership-alex-jones-bankruptcy/ https://fortune.com/2024/11/27/x-twitter-elon-musk-account-o...
  - Forgeties79 6mo ago
    It can’t be that hard for you to think of something digital that you (don’t) own and how you would feel if a comparable situation happened to you. A TOS isn’t some magical shield from legitimate complaints and scrutiny any more than “it’s the law” makes something morally right.
- Culonavirus 6mo ago
  > lawyers Best I can do is pretend to be a lawyer and forward all of ur stuff to ChatGPT Free. U down?
- 4gotunameagain 6mo ago
  Turns out that when you are using some oligarch's platform, you don't own jack. This is digital feudalism, and the billionaires have seized the means of communication.
  - pembrook 6mo ago
    Billionaires have always owned the means of communication (just look at the Salzbergers, Murdochs, etc). Digital decentralized protocols (smtp, http, etc) were the first time this wasn’t true. But you [we] voluntarily moved your communication off of open internet protocols onto private ad-based platforms. Of course you don’t own anything there, you never did. The billionaires didn’t “seize” anything. You happily sold yourself out for a few clicks of less friction and an easier shot at digital fame by going “viral” on social media company land. If this isn’t a much bigger indictment of the collective (who after decades still could not agree on a non-elitist, human understandable protocol that didn’t require a CS degree to use) than it is of the entrepreneurs who solved all the problems the collective refused to, I don’t know how else to get though to you.
    - mghackerlady 6mo ago
      they didn't ever own radio, as evident by AM radio still being crazy and ham still being around
      - pelotron 6mo ago
        One of the reasons why I got my HAM license this year was specifically to have a means of communication that required no infrastructure. The HAM community is also very similar to the OSS community in many respects w/r/t constantly developing new free ways to use their spectrum.
        mghackerlady 6mo ago
        I want to get a HAM license (it seems like a nerd rite of passage) but don't really want to get one if I'm never going to use it, which seems like it could end up the case since the HAM community seems to be comprised of mostly middle aged men, which tend not to have the greatest opinions about me (a young transgender woman) and aren't afraid to expect me to agree with them. Also in the current political climate it seems like a bad idea to dox myself