I'm not going to delete my X account, because I don't want the username reassigned. But I'm deleting all my follows and am starting to work on deleting posts. Turns out you can only unboost a post if you block the user, so a lot of y'all are going to be blocked. Don't take it personally. If anything, that's the kind of misinformation that makes X's data mining less useful.
@AlphaCentauri @th3j35t3r had a guide on how to delete all your shit, but keep your username.
If you send him a message, I'm sure he would be more than happy to tell you how to do it.
I'm a little hesitant to do that, because the one I have has no identifying information besides an email I don't use for anything else. It was locked for a long time because I wouldn't give them a phone number. It got accidentally unlocked when Musk took over. They might require a phone number halfway through this process.
@AlphaCentauri @th3j35t3r posted about this a few days ago:
1) Create a new Twitter account no identifying names etc.
2) Go to the account you're trying to obscure & change ur @/handle to make it available.
3). QUICKLY Go to the new account and change it's @/handle to ur original @/handle
4). Deactivate your original account.
Eventually your original data will cycle out of their backups & nobody can take your handle.
@AlphaCentauri J posted a how-to yesterday on how to go through the process of both leaving X, and also making it so that your old username wouldn't get reassigned or taken over.
I'm terrible at finding things, but I sawr, it, I swears!