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Twitter is purging inactive accounts, including people who have died
(
chicagotribune.com
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blahedo
on May 18, 2023
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wlpu
on May 18, 2023
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TBH I'm pretty excited for my twitter footprint to be deleted
neximo64
on May 18, 2023
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To be quite cold about it, it would be nice to recycle the username
hammyhavoc
on May 18, 2023
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Exploiting people isn't going to be nice.
Usernames on
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should be single-use to prevent abuse.
bnt
on May 18, 2023
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Elon did say they would free up inactive usernames, guess he figured its not a good idea
hammyhavoc
on May 18, 2023
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Oh, he's already backpedaled on doing this?
neximo64
on May 18, 2023
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I hope not. Theres a username im looking to get that I lost the password for a long time ago.
hunglee2
on May 18, 2023
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this is vandalism of cultural history akin to demolishing the Library of Alexandria for the stone.
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