Why You Can’t Anonymise Your Twitter Account

The Internet never forgets. Yahoo’s Twitter page as it was in 2008, still live online today. Are your old, deleted pages preserved in the same place?

So your Twitter account has carried your name for a year, but now you want to be anonymous? No problem: all you do is change your screen name, and maybe also your username. Some of your followers will probably still know who you are, but no one else can find you, right?

Are Twitter’s ‘Locked Accounts’ a Ransom Racket?

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