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- X has found its latest handle victim as it took away the handle "@music" from a user.
- Account holder Jeremy Vaught said he was "super pissed" that X had abruptly removed his handle.
- It comes after the company suddenly removed the "X" handle from user Gene X Hwang.
The owner of a well-known X account says he is "super pissed" after the company appeared to take his handle, and told him it would now be "affiliated with X Corp."
Jeremy Vaught, who runs an account with the handle, @music, which had 455,000 followers, shared an email from the company formerly known as Twitter saying his handle would be removed.
The page, which was formerly labeled Twitter Music, now has Vaught's old handle and is labeled as an affiliate of X.
In the email, which Vaught shared on X, the site said his account would be renamed to @musicfan and that his prior followers and data would be transferred over.
He says he was given other alternatives to choose from, including @musicmusic, @music123, and @musiclover. All those handles are already in use by other X accounts.
"16 years ago, I created @music and have been running it ever since. Just now, Twitter / X just ripped it away," Vaught tweeted.
"Super pissed."
Twitter's rebrand to X last month has left a legacy of old intellectual property related to the group's previous bird-based branding.
X's @music account is one of several that has had to be hastily rebranded from its affiliation to Twitter. For example, @Twittermovies is now @movies, despite some excitement among users that it might be given a name linked to the platform's new name, X, which in turn would lead it to sharing a name with a well-known pornographic site.
The removal of @music comes a week after the company took away the @x user handle from user Gene X Hwang without asking him.
In an email similar to that posted by Vaught, Kwang was told his handle would be associated with X Corp.
He was offered an exclusive visit to X HQ to meet members of the company's team, as well as X merchandise.
X didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.