Elon Musk needs to get maximum profitability from Twitter in minimum time. It is not a surprise, we talked about it already in the middle of last year, months before the acquisition process of the social network (now a little less) of the billionaire was completed. The credits he had to request to carry out the operation are associated with significant interest that Musk will have to pay if the social network continues to be in a financial deficit.

In the end, the accounts turned out to be far more important than freedom of speech, space for public debate, and a whole host of plans and good intentions that Musk pushed as part of his intentions to take control of Twitter. He suddenly went from talking about freedom, freedom and more freedom (as strangely enough liberticide do) to censoring journalists, trying to get money out of the rocks and saying that the possibility of bankruptcy is on the horizon. bench. It’s possible the Twitter accounts caught him off guard, I think… (yes, that’s actually sarcasm).

The most famous move in this regard was, of course, to start charging for a verified account, a feature that until now was only granted to accounts of people and companies with a certain level of notoriety to prove that they really were who they said they were (hence verified name), and included it in Twitter Blue, the social network’s subscription modality, which also rose in price once it took control of Twitter.

Now, as we can read in The New York Times, Elon Musk is considering charging for some Twitter usernames. As you may recall, a while back he announced his plans to remove 1.5 billion inactive accounts in order to make those usernames available to new users of the social network. At the time, there was simply talk of releasing the names, not that they might have an economic cost to whoever wants to use them.

According to sources cited by The New York Times, an option being considered is to auction off those names that may be more interesting, with users determining them. Obviously, the vast majority of the 1,500 million to be recovered will have no value, but it is more than likely that interesting identifiers will be found among them, and therefore there will be users willing to pay for them.

It can be deduced from the acquisition format, yes, that Twitter is planning one charge for them, so at least we can find ourselves with a song in our teeth, because I bet someone thought of it at some point. charge a monthly fee for them and generate recurring income, which is exactly what social media accounts need most these days.