Personal Data No-Nos: Twitter Is On My Blacklist

It is well documented out there that Linked-In is the Hotel California of the Internet — you can leave but they won’t delete your account. I won’t sign up for

Trent Reznor's Twitter Account is Really Gone. Mine Isn't

Linked-In for that reason but the funny thing is I am having the same problem with Twitter. When I first signed up I had a choice-three-letter username. After some experimentation — and some debate about whether to use my longish full name — I adopted a five letter username that I have kept ever since. When Twitter got really popular this past Winter I thought I should surrender my first username to someone that would want it. I deleted my account. The user info never went away. Most vexing of all — I continue to get follow notifications as spammers follow my dormant account and I can’t log on to change the email settings because the account officially doesn’t exist.

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