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The owner of @X didn’t get the big payout from Elon Musk people expected.

Many expected the previous owner of @X on Twitter to be handsomely compensated when the platform took over the handle after its rebrand. But the payday never came. “They just took it essentially — kinda what I thought might happen,” Gene X Hwang tells The Telegraph.

“All’s well that ends well,” Hwang subsequently tweeted from the far less prestigious @x12345678998765 handle.

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