Your old Twitter handle might be worth something to someone, apparently.

X (formerly Twitter) announced over the weekend that it will start selling inactive handles on the Elon Musk -owned social network. The company will facilitate sales through a new Handles Marketplace, which will only be available to paid Premium and Premium Business users. Some usernames will be "complimentary" (AKA free), and X is calling those "Priority" handles. Others will be doled out on a paid or invite-only basis, and those are designated as "Rare" handles.

It's all bit strange, but our friends at PCMag have a clearer explanation of how this works. The free ones will be longer handles with full names or alphanumeric phrases, while the ones that cost money will be shorter and more recognizable handles, l

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