Re:I deleted my social media accounts
by paularmstrong on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:10PM
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They can be taken immediately. Source me, former Twitter employee pre 2021
Re:I deleted my social media accounts
by angoragoats on Sunday January 12, 2025 @09:29PM
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It must have changed between when you worked there and now, because I just checked and I can't sign up with my old handle (despite it returning a "this account doesn't exist" error when attempting to view it).
Re:I deleted my social media accounts
by throwaway290 on Monday January 13, 2025 @12:24AM
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As of 2023 the model was to allow taking a handle even if it already exists but did not post for a while: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-inactive...
So it seems unlikely they would keep deleted handles forever. I bet they become part of this marketplace program a la "premium domains".
Re:I deleted my social media accounts
by angoragoats on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:52AM
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I can’t find any evidence that the plan outlined in that article was actually launched. The owner of Twitter says a lot of stuff, but most of it is made up.
Do you have a source for this? The only thing i can find is a random tweet from Elmo in 2023. I deleted my twitter account in the 2022-ish timeframe, and the handle I had (created in 2007) was my first initial + last name, which I would think would be claimed by now. It's not, so I'm thinking that deleted account handles can't be reused.