{"id":1802864,"date":"2023-01-11T17:49:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802864"},"modified":"2023-01-11T17:50:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:50:58","slug":"twitter-considering-selling-user-names-to-boost-revenue-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-considering-selling-user-names-to-boost-revenue-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Considering Selling User Names To Boost Revenue: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-considering-selling-user-names-to-boost-revenue-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802864&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Twitter CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> According to reports, he has considered selling user names to increase revenue. This is as a result of his multi-billion-dollar acquisition of the company in late 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s user name is a collection of characters that follow the rules. \u201c@\u201d Sign and it is used to identify all accounts on the platform. For example, former President Donald Trump\u2019s user name is @realDonaldTrump.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/11\/technology\/twitter-user-names-elon-musk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the company has held discussions for weeks about selling some user names that have value \u2014 those of well-known public figures and brands.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear where Twitter currently stands on the plan, the report said, adding that it also was not clear if the plan would target all user names or those whose accounts are inactive.<\/p>\n<p>Since Musk\u2019s $44 billion purchase of the company back in October, the serial entrepreneur has cut roughly 75% of the workforce at the company, started selling blue verification badges to users willing to pay a monthly subscription fee, and has looked at other ways of boosting revenue for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at the social media platform no longer have access to commuter benefits or meal allowances, even though coffee and snacks will continue to be available in the office, according to an email\u00a0seen by Platformer Managing Editor Zoe Schiffer.<\/p>\n<p>Musk made headlines by shifting Twitter&#8217;s culture to a more focused focus that he claims is intended to improve the platform. The world\u2019s second-richest man told remaining workers that they should expect \u201cextremely hardcore\u201d They can also stay for hours if they wish to. He said that Twitter would be the next big thing. \u201cmuch more engineering-driven,\u201d This could be interpreted as a departure from a \u201cdesign and product management\u201d emphases.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has started asking employees to pay for lunches, a benefit that had previously been free, according to a\u00a0report\u00a0from The New York Times published two months ago. He\u00a0revealed\u00a0that lunches had cost more than $400 \u201cper lunch served\u201d Since \u201calmost no one came to the office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When accused of lying about the figure by a former employee, Musk\u00a0said\u00a0that average occupancy was below 10% at the San Francisco office even as Twitter spent more than $13 million per year on food services for the headquarters. \u201cThere are more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast,\u201d He stated. \u201cThey don\u2019t even bother serving dinner, because there is no one in the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco office of the social media company also sells kitchen equipment and furniture. Items for sale include La Marzocco espresso machines and Rotisol rotisserie ovens, as well as commercial blenders and grinders, refrigerators, grills and griddles, fryers, braising pans, and pizza ovens, according to a\u00a0list\u00a0posted by Heritage Global Partners, a company that conducts auctions for downsizing businesses.<\/p>\n<p><em>This report was contributed by Ben Zeisloft<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk has reportedly considered selling user names on the platform to boost revenue as he looks for ways to make the company profitable following his multi-billion dollar acquisition of the company late last year. A user name on Twitter is a series of characters following the \u201c@\u201d sign and is used to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1802867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7838,6202,6574,3819,14486,7333,4253,9424,6195],"class_list":["post-1802864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-boost","tag-daily","tag-names","tag-report","tag-revenue","tag-selling","tag-twitter","tag-user","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}