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Re:Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry by exit on Thursday November 28, 2019 @04:23AM (#21655775)
> 1. Most Twitter users are not malicious in the way you suggest.

the odds of, at a minimum, any given twitter profile being at least wildly off-brand for your namespace colliding persona are still very high. this looks like a legitimate edge case anxiety to me.

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Re:Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry by dmix on Thursday November 28, 2019 @08:52AM (#21657319)
Regardless anyone seeing it will quickly realize it’s not you. From the bio/location/topics etc.

This isn’t that big of a deal at all.

Plus all you have to do is login once in a while to keep it active as far as Twitter is concerned. I think 6 months is way too aggressive though.

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Re:Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry by dillonmckay on Thursday November 28, 2019 @09:32AM (#21657600)
We have known instances of people’s twitter accounts being hacked, and then fired from their job, after ‘their’ twitter feed posted objectionable content.
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