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To follow up on a previous post in which I claimed that I had deleted my Twitter account, I will now copy/paste this post+comments from Facebook that I just wrote:
Hmm, okay.
So "deactivating" your Twitter account doesn't actually delete it, apparently. I went to recreate my Twitter account as a placeholder, just so that, at some point in the far-flung, nebulous future, I wouldn't try again and find that @KaneMagus had been taken by someone else (as unlikely as that may have been). When I tried to create a new account with my email address, Twitter claimed that email was already in use. So... I tried to log in with my email and old password and... it was almost as if I'd never left, apparently. The only thing that is different is that my Followers/Following pages are not visible, though when I check the accounts of people I had been following and/or were following me, they still show as followees/followers (and I can still manually go to the /followers and /following pages and they're still fully populated, it's just that links to those pages do not appear on my profile page for me).
I have zero intention of or interest in resuming the use of Twitter at this point in time, mind you. I just wanted my handle available for my own use in the future, for the time whenever I did go back (likely post-Trump, which could be anywhere from <1 to 6+ years from now, at least).
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Hmm, so all I had to do was "follow" someone new (I picked, very temporarily, @IGN as it was the first that showed in my "who to follow" list that I recognized), and my follower/following links came back as well.
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Interestingly and oddly, in my notifications, over the span between 8/13/2018 (when I deactivated) and today (when I reactivated), I had 10 separate notifications from Twitter, regarding 24 different accounts that I had previously reported, letting me know that these accounts had "violated the Twitter rules."
For what that's worth. And given that I checked a couple of those accounts at random, from the least recent and most recent of those notifications, and given that I saw that both of the accounts were still active and still spewing Trumpanzee dumbshit, it's apparently worth nothing at all whatsoever.
*shrug*
Welp, that's Twitter for you. I wouldn't have expected anything better from Twitter.
Hmm, okay.
So "deactivating" your Twitter account doesn't actually delete it, apparently. I went to recreate my Twitter account as a placeholder, just so that, at some point in the far-flung, nebulous future, I wouldn't try again and find that @KaneMagus had been taken by someone else (as unlikely as that may have been). When I tried to create a new account with my email address, Twitter claimed that email was already in use. So... I tried to log in with my email and old password and... it was almost as if I'd never left, apparently. The only thing that is different is that my Followers/Following pages are not visible, though when I check the accounts of people I had been following and/or were following me, they still show as followees/followers (and I can still manually go to the /followers and /following pages and they're still fully populated, it's just that links to those pages do not appear on my profile page for me).
I have zero intention of or interest in resuming the use of Twitter at this point in time, mind you. I just wanted my handle available for my own use in the future, for the time whenever I did go back (likely post-Trump, which could be anywhere from <1 to 6+ years from now, at least).
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Hmm, so all I had to do was "follow" someone new (I picked, very temporarily, @IGN as it was the first that showed in my "who to follow" list that I recognized), and my follower/following links came back as well.
---
Interestingly and oddly, in my notifications, over the span between 8/13/2018 (when I deactivated) and today (when I reactivated), I had 10 separate notifications from Twitter, regarding 24 different accounts that I had previously reported, letting me know that these accounts had "violated the Twitter rules."
For what that's worth. And given that I checked a couple of those accounts at random, from the least recent and most recent of those notifications, and given that I saw that both of the accounts were still active and still spewing Trumpanzee dumbshit, it's apparently worth nothing at all whatsoever.
*shrug*
Welp, that's Twitter for you. I wouldn't have expected anything better from Twitter.
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Date: 2018-09-05 06:58 pm (UTC)From:Both sites are toxic swill as far as I'm concerned all the same. (Twitter more so, but that doesn't make facebook a rose garden even by comparison.)
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Date: 2018-09-05 07:07 pm (UTC)From:I've never tried to delete my Facebook (yet), but if FB doesn't actually delete it when you select to delete it, then yeah, it's just like how Twitter works now.