You should also remove or change any personal identifying information that's part of your profile: personal name, phone number, address, email. There are plenty of sites out there that will create a temporary (like 10-minute) email for you, that can receive verifications, to allow you to change your email to something completely useless to the system.

The best way to make it useless is to delete as much of that as you can: remove follows and followers and delete response-tweets; stop 'liking' posts.

It's especially the high-profile people who pride themselves on their huge numbers of followers who need to be off your following list, because they *will* take notice when their follower numbers drop.

A thing to remember about the Bird, and many other supposedly free social media sites, is that the monetizable information about you (which is what really gets sold and bought) is not anything anybody writes. Rather, it's all the connections you make (follows, followers, likes, comments on other people's posts) that identify you as part of a number of overlapping groups.

If you just shut your account, that information is still there.

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🔒 HOW TO LOCK THE BIRD ACCOUNT:

Tap Privacy and Safety. In the Protect Your Tweets section, toggle on the slider. Your tweets and account information will now be seen only by your followers, and you'll need to approve any new follower requests. When you lock your account, padlock icon will appear next to your profile.