Post AT62niYxputZmVL6Ya by intelwire@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AT62ngvvtY50jA4Q52 by intelwire@mastodon.social
       2023-02-26T23:10:21Z
       
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       I am seeing evidence that deactivated Twitter handles are being reused within about a month of deactivation. If you're leaving Twitter, lock your account, delete your tweets and sign out of all devices, rather than deleting your account entirely.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT62niYxputZmVL6Ya by intelwire@mastodon.social
       2023-02-26T23:37:40Z
       
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       Just to put a little more color on this, I have been verifying the status of a list of deactivated accounts. I am finding two anomalies. 1) Accounts with same handle but different UID and different profile details 2) Accounts with same handle and same details but different UID and create date after I scraped the first time.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT62nkBzmHi8pqbn28 by intelwire@mastodon.social
       2023-02-26T23:39:29Z
       
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       It's possible both 1 and 2 are the original user returning, but I've seen enough of both at this point to think that is not the case. Also my understanding was always that a self-delete and reactivation would keep the same UID, but it's possible this has been happening for some time without me noticing it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT6yL1YZvwiHdJBIxs by paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-02-27T17:18:03Z
       
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       @intelwire I anticipated that, and that's exactly what I did a couple of months ago.