The user behind @x on Twitter has no idea what happens next after Elon Musk's X rebrand

Over a weekend, Elon Musk announced he was “bidding adieu” to the entire Twitter brand and calling the platform “X.” Within days, the company rolled out logo changes across the site and even took down the physical Twitter logo from its corporate headquarters in San Francisco.However, as Mashable previously pointed out, the whole rebrand seems rather thrown together with large swaths of the website unchanged, referring to Twitter, and still carrying the blue bird.Perhaps nothing shows how this was all hacked together last minute better than the main official account for the entire platform still using the @Twitter handle. Over the past few days, many users who are critical of the rebrand have pointed out: Why hasn’t Musk and company changed it to @x? Well, one big reason may be that @x already belongs to a Twitter user, one who has actively been using the platform since they registered the handle in March 2007.”I haven’t been contacted by Twitter / Elon,” said Gene X. Hwang, co-founder of event photo company Orange Photography and owner of the @x handle on the platform formerly known as Twitter, in an email when Mashable reached out to him.”I am keeping an eye out on DMs and such to see if they do touch base about it,” he explained in an email exchange with Mashable about the @x handle which he has been tweeting from for more than 16 years. Gene X. Hwang recently went private with his @x account on X, the platform formerly known…The user behind @x on Twitter has no idea what happens next after Elon Musk's X rebrand