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Martin Be
Martin Be
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You can do way simpler if you want your user name to never be usable again. But beware, that's permanent! Think twice before you use this way! The trick is: just delete anything from your account (there are scripts for that you can use) and post something that violates x/Twitter rules very badly. For example some ugly porn, abusive pictures, very shitty texts and so on. It doesn't matter what, but must be hard violating their tos. And then ask some friends/people to report this account.
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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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@MartinBe I found deleting anything via scripts or services too cumbersome... 100 000 tweets alone with all the reactions etc. for 17 years of time period. Better to just delete the whole account all at once.
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Martin Be
Martin Be
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Deleting account doesn't physically remove data from their servers, clusters or whatever else they are using. Same as on fb and plenty of other similar services. Of course "deleting" all content by hand is possible, why not, if someone has such amounts of patientce? What I meant, scripts are handy and can save lots of time. Also decent made scripts are able to replace your sensitive but undeletable data with some random gibberish. If someone is privacy freak. You know.
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Martin Be
Martin Be
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2/n It was few times proven that such services like fb doesn't really delete any of the users data even after the account is removed, deleted etc. Moreover they still can and use them for own purposes like ads and profiling, targeting friends of such user who are on fb for example. That's why such scripts/tools/browser add-ons (you name it) have been developed in the first place. Because of those corporate cheaters.
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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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@MartinBe True. However I tried it and it didn't work.
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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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@MartinBe In my archive I see "Deleted tweets" so that's telling. I'm sure they won't delete anything regardless of the method.
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Martin Be
Martin Be
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Yes, exactly that method can be used to check what they have been deleted and what's not. Most of the stuff remains there. They are doing that because of the money. By physically deleting they would cut themselves out of the possibility to monetize this content and use it for own different purposes. Few years ago even EU commission complained about this to plenty of companies like meta, google, twitter etc, but unsuccessfully. Those services still have data of people who doesn't use them.
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Martin Be
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I tried only once, back in the time when I was deleting my fb account. And I must admit that this script I used was pretty good and did the job done very well. Of course it takes some time and I have to repeat it twice or three times, but still I did managed to get all of my stuff rid from fb. It was an user-script for the Tampermonkey add-on in Firefox. As far as I remember. Today those old tools probably won't work, but there are plenty of new ones out there in the internet to find.
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Jan Beta
Jan Beta
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I did pretty much the same when I deactivated my account many moons ago. Glad to read that the method still works.
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MeaTLoTioN
MeaTLoTioN
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if you're deactivating your account for good, why would you want to bother keeping your name in there? I'm sure there are more than one person with the same name who might want that if you aren't gonna use it ever again.
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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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@meatlotion Some people might want to do harm and pose as me. People have done that in the past.
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Expert Plus 🍀
Expert Plus 🍀
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I understand why you won't spend your time anymore on Twitter, Gab, Truth Social and etc......but you got me curious when you added to that list as well "dark onion websites" thing. Can you please expand more on that? Thanks.
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Expert Plus 🍀
Expert Plus 🍀
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yeah, I know, but what's your issue with it? I like don't get what had it done bad to you.
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Expert Plus 🍀
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No, of course not :-) But the onion websites don't have to be always criminal-related, you know......like for example, journalists can use it for their research.......
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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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@ExpertPlus Of course I know this. But in this context I am not referring to the healthy sites.

When I say rotten apples are not healthy for you, naturally I know there are better apples available. Do I need to list every small detail there is to list in between sentences?

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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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@mloxton I think there's nothing to be done in those situations.
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David Beazley
David Beazley
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A PSA: I followed these instructions, but encounted a problem of being "rate limited" when trying to change the name of the new account to the old one.

Stumbled across a reddit comment that if you just clicked the change button as fast as possible for like a minute (getting repeated "rate limited" errors), it would eventually work.

As a SW guy, I'm thinking "WTF?!?" But, I try it and after about 45s of this nonsense--username changed.

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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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@dabeaz Wow, interesting. Got it sorted out, eventually, right? They may have put that "delay" there so nobody can snitch the username right away, or something.
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David Beazley
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Yeah, it worked, but I had to click "save changes" about 50 times in quick succession.

My guess: Unlike posting a tweet, changing your username is just the kind of unusual operation that might involve distributed consensus (Paxos, Raft, etcd). It's entirely likely it could be handed off to a small 3-node cluster somewhere. It's also an expensive operation, so the whole thing is probably throttled (globally).

I'd bet even money the error message was actually related to that.

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Brian M
Brian M
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Deactivating your account shouldn't matter. The most important metric on a social media site is "active users". No one will really care about unused accounts, so just keep your account but don't login.
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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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@snarkymanchild Yes it does matter. The data is there to be used. Why keep an account on a hostile site? People should leave the dumpster and burn it to the ground.
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