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Read: NSA has at least a that much historic data stored about everyone and is able to decrypt way more than we publicly know.

I'd argue they can't... and that's why it's being stored that long... if you end up on a shitlist I'd guess your retention period goes up.

They need a backlog to supply the parallel construction if their Eye of Providence decides you look interesting.

If you delete the account, the account name is irrelevant. You can give the exact name, and still no information could be obtained via it.

there are multiple services that cache deleted twitter and reddit content. it'd be silly to assume the government wasn't capable of accessing that.

or of implementing new statutes that require archival covering the timewindow and getting them directly from the provider

What if I delete the entire content?

Did you also delete the copy stored in NSA’s Utah Data Center?

There is no such thing as "deleting" data on somebody's else system.