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> It's weird that they protected their tweets The alternative is having a random selection of highly liked (and, often, very old) posts show up on their profil
by duskwuff 3y ago
> It's weird that they protected their tweets
The alternative is having a random selection of highly liked (and, often, very old) posts show up on their profile for logged-out users. Setting their account to protected is an easy and effective way of making that go away -- and it also prevents users from following an account that's no longer in use.
- acdha 3y agoThe other thing I’d be worried about is deleting an account and then having Twitter give it out to some spammer who’d see traffic from the millions of links out in the wild.
- not2b 3y agoElon has stolen active accounts and handed them to others, and is purging inactive accounts, so keeping an inactive account is limited protection: https://www.fastcompany.com/90933866/elon-musk-x-stealing-more-users-twitter-handles https://www.fastcompany.com/90933866/elon-musk-x-stealing-mo...
- randunel 3y agoTwitter did this well before the Elon era.
- riffic 3y agowho does anyone think the namespace belongs to?
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- not2b 3y agoLegally, X management can do whatever they please, because it isn't illegal to be jerks. No one is disputing that. But if sites use the power to do this in an abusive way, people should know about it, and adjust their expectations about whether people are who they say they are.
- acdha 3y agoYeah, I don’t think anyone can predict his whims accurately but I do think that’s more likely to happen with usernames which have more mainstream value than the W3C.
- duskwuff 3y agoOr ones which Elon has a grudge against: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twit...
- NetOpWibby 3y agoI did the same thing with my main account a few weeks back. I have a gaming Twitter and two business ones. I kinda need those (the illustrators and indie game devs I follow aren't anywhere else and I need the network effects and community for my business). I'm hoping Elon gets kicked out like at PayPal and Twitter is able to become less cringe.