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The 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
by acdha 3y ago
The 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...