Twitter is purging inactive accounts, including people who have died

TBH I'm pretty excited for my twitter footprint to be deleted

To be quite cold about it, it would be nice to recycle the username

Exploiting people isn't going to be nice.

Usernames on anything should be single-use to prevent abuse.

Elon did say they would free up inactive usernames, guess he figured its not a good idea

Oh, he's already backpedaled on doing this?

I hope not. Theres a username im looking to get that I lost the password for a long time ago.

this is vandalism of cultural history akin to demolishing the Library of Alexandria for the stone.