A thought came to me. With Elon there now, bringing his own army of engineers... Will you be safe from exposure if you were an anon account holder with reason to stay that way? I fear the answer is no. heads up and chat w your mouthpiece and nudge @EFF to jump in the fray to protect many who were safe under the old regime and now less so. Do you have a clue on this @Karoli

@steelhoof @Karoli I am wondering the same thing. I only deactivated my account there instead of deleting it. I’m thinking my info is still available to those thieving crooks if they want it so maybe I should just delete it. Does anybody have any confirmed thoughts on this?

@EmRey delete your tweets. There are services you can use to do it. But don’t let squatters take your name.

@Karoli well, I went in to Twitter and tried to do anything like deleting my tweets, but I just got a message that I had deactivated my account, which is true, and all my messages will be deleted in 30 days. Apparently I can’t do anything else unless I reactivate the account, which I don’t wanna do at this point. I’m just crossing my fingers that my stuff doesn’t get ripped off and distributed across the evil net. 🙄

@EmRey there are services which will delete all your tweets. Just set your account to private and leave it there. Don’t deactivate it.

@Karoli @EmRey

Funfact - you CANNOT delete tweets or DM's from Twitter, you can only hide them from yourself. They still have everything. That's why when you try to delete a DM it says 'delete for you'.

And you can't 'delete' your account either, you can only 'deactivate' it. - ir's still there for them.

@th3j35t3r
Looks like getting oneself permabanned is an advantage in more ways than I thought.

@Karoli @EmRey