Should he have made the deal?
Belgium
The username has zero value and it only has 17k followers. Interaction seems average for an account of that size.
The only value would be in the followers and that would probably be well under $1000.
Take my word on the latter with a graint of salt though. I'm not as much in that 'community' as I used to be and the new Twitter policies kinda changed the game.
Before, any Twitter with the most unappealing username and zero followers would get you at least $3k if it had a verification badge, back when only Twitter staff manually gave them out.
There was also no direct monetization on Twitter to take into account.
My former Twitter for example was "Thursday", which I later ended up selling for around $800 after initially getting it as part of a split cash/account deal. That was years ago pre-Elon purely off the name, since I don't really use Twitter.
Twitter accounts back then could definitely get into the 10k+ range but that was when we're talking SIM-swapped accounts with millions of followers.
Eiher way I can guarantee the guy in that tweet isn't getting offers anyway close to that but I'm not familiar with how much monetization an account with those stats would make.
I'm guessing its value still wouldn't reach 1k.
17k followers in the username/account market is nothing, and that's literally the only thing that account has to offer.
My Twitch username for example, which is "50" has zero function, no monetization ability, but is valued at $20k solely because it's the only 2 number username on the entire site.
Twitch also does not allow the creation of usernames under 4 characters. Try it out, it'll block you and say "minimum of 4 characters required."
In other words, the only factors that are taken into account for that valuation are:
- Rarity (it's the absolute rarest username anyone can have with nothing remotely in the same league)
- Ego/Looking 'cool'; as examplified by when I go go into any new Twitch chat and everyone going 'wow' when they see my name