Linked tweet says: > If you leave Twitter, I recommmend you DO NOT delete your account. All old tweets @ mentioning you will still exist and if someone grabs t

Linked tweet says: > If you leave Twitter, I recommmend you DO NOT delete your account. All old tweets @ mentioning you will still exist and if someone grabs that now available username then all tweets @ referencing that username now point to them. Replies disagree: > No, that's not true. Twitter organizes accounts using unique numeric IDs (yours is 16851144 btw). Of course, someone can take over your twitter handle and username if you delete your profile, but old replies will not point to this new account. > I can attest to that. > Yeah, this makes a lot more sense. It'd be weird (and probably sub-optimal and inefficient) to organize stuff based off random usernames rather than numeric ids.