They could simply remap their usernames by appending random digits to it, freeing up the usernames for new joiners. This way they don't require deleting data too.
This is going to cause a lot of pain and erase a lot of history. Twitter could avoid it simply by archiving https://twitter.com/id at https://twitter.com/inactive/id . But they probably won't.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50567751 …
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There's probably a sensible approach they could take, but won't.
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But then they couldn’t sell the good names!
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But how long do social posts stay in engines and rank being that they are considered live sources?
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Many of these are probably dead folks right? It’s a form of desecration.
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could be a good opportunity to grab some sweet short handles
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Is this something the API will allow a third party to do? Maybe distributed archiving, 1,000,000 computers all archiving X then recompiling on back end.
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