Twitter: Plans to sell inactive usernames!

Twitter will soon start selling usernames via online auctions that have remained inactive to boost its revenues. As per The New York Times, engineers at the company plan to organize online auctions where user can bid for usernames or Twitter handles. It is still not clear how much Twitter will charge for selling inactive usernames.

"The company has discussed selling some user names through online auctions, people with knowledge of the plans said," according to the report.

In December, Musk tweeted that Twitter would start freeing up 1.5 billion usernames. "Twitter will soon start freeing the namespace of 1.5 billion accounts," posted Musk.

He said these are "obvious account deletions with no tweets and no log-in for years."

After acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk posted that he was interested in freeing up accounts with desired usernames. Since Musk's takeover has been aiming to boost the micro-blogging platform 's revenue, including charging money for its $8 Blue subscription service with verification.

Many advertisers have left the as the company reduces internal revenue projections. Musk also said that Twitter is working on a process to inform the users whether their tweets have been suppressed under a process known as "shadow banning,".