It's not exactly <i>new</i> that Twitter and others take over handles.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyvaught/status/1687537767671070737" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/jeremyvaught/status/1687537767671070737</a><p>The lesson isn't that Musk is Bad (in this instance anyway) so much as your existence on a platform continues to be at that platform's discretion.
The subhead is "X user quits paying for Twitter Blue to protest X commandeering his account." That may not matter much to Twitter.<p>I'd lean towards a subhead of x signals product direction while angering some users.<p>One good thing is Twitter does move followers etc
The end of the story is that the guy is now a big Elon Musk fan.<p>So... nothing to do from Twitter's perspective I guess.<p>+ The account didn't seem to be active recently anyway