I've deleted my Twitter account. Some days after my username was made available for anyone to grab (contrary to what used to happen traditionally). Some unfunny imbecile grabbed it and is now running free there making retarded posts while still trying to put out a facade of legitimacy. This is all fine, I don't mind, it's ok.
What really bothers me is that all the old tweets from people who had mentioned "@fiatjaf" in all past discussions now link to this new fake profile. How can they not index the mentions by any form of unique account id, but only by username? And then they allow people to freely change usernames and cause all links to break -- and someone else takes the old username and now all the links point to the wrong place.
Is this
@jack's broken code that no one had the time to fix in 20 years or what?
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Now imagine the potential of @alexandre
Will the real slim shady please stand up
This is identity theft. Maybe they implemented Nostr where if someone steals your nsec you can become them.
If they report the new user, that probably will work breaking the X rules for "impersonation".
Well, probably..
he has a banana account on bluesky if i remember correct
It’s not just broken code it’s a disregard for digital legacy. Mentions should 100% map to immutable IDs. I’ve started screencapping convos for this exact reason. Have you tweeted at @TwitterSupport? Maybe public shaming will get their attention.
Anyways, I report him for Spam.
I think it's the right category.
This guarantees X will be 100% scam accounts given enough time.
I dont think twittersupport gives a fsck. Just my hunch.
As t --> inf, P($cams)--> 1
Ah it must be that.
Better to get your account banned or lock it and unfollow everyone than to delete it.
Tweeting support has never once done anything, it's just a lightning rod for outrage. Like a big red button that's not connected to anything, but people still feel better when they press it.
lmao twitter handles are duck typed?
Okay, not gonna lie, im laughing HARD XD
Sorry to hear this though; would feel weird seing that done to my own name too.
But wtf twitter? xD
Huh, Jack lives rent-free in your mind when the South African Nazi oligarch is in charge for quite some time and has turned the bird app into 4chan with more Nazis ?
1) wat
#Twitter really needs to fix it's code 😔
fiatjaf
I've deleted my Twitter account. Some days after my username was made available for anyone to grab (contrary to what used to happen traditionally). Some unfunny imbecile grabbed it and is now running free there making retarded posts while still trying to put out a facade of legitimacy. This is all fine, I don't mind, it's ok.
What really bothers me is that all the old tweets from people who had mentioned "@fiatjaf" in all past discussions now link to this new fake profile. How can they not index the mentions by any form of unique account id, but only by username? And then they allow people to freely change usernames and cause all links to break -- and someone else takes the old username and now all the links point to the wrong place.
Is this
@jack's broken code that no one had the time to fix in 20 years or what?
Crazy. You shouldn't be able to use an account name that someone has used before. Mind you the character limit is so small they're probably running out of combinations.
Having a nice universally unique pubkey as an identifier is much better.
May be Jack's old code, while the bigger guffaw is that this is just another great example of the facade that Elon is some great-mind or Engineer.
View quoted note →What do you mean by finally? It's been an almost an year or more.
I knew you could do it 🤓
Twitter won't do that, they'd rather shadowban your account than offer that feature.
Twitter usernames or handles are the property of Twitter Inc. and users are only able to use them for free and have no right to keep them.
Won't do what?
Why my relay so delay to find yours
I guess the best approach is to not delete the account and just stop posting.
thats broke af
do reserved username
This is exactly why I decided to restore my account after deactivating it and just leave it locked, dormant, and pointing to my Nostr profile. I didn’t want someone else to grab my username and start impersonating me, or worse.
I get the technical side of it, but it’s frustrating when old posts get linked incorrectly.
One thing’s for sure—I’m not deleting my Twitter/X account over this. I’ll just remove the posts that need to go.
Are you kidding me?
I mean WTF?!?
pewdiepie did this early on, he quit twitter years ago but kept the username account to avoid squatters
It sucks and I’m sorry to hear but the reality is that your X account was NEVER yours. Like your money in the bank. And this is true for all of us.
Legend
WTF 👀👀
Nostr arregla esto
It was for that reason that I took a spare account I had and changed the username to Corndalorian after I deleted my main account, and then locked the account and I don’t use it other than to look up tweets.
fuck em. well done 🔥
I manage operations for a Chinese social media app, which is quite niche—probably no one has heard of it. We have an ID/UID system where IDs can be anything, but the system sorts everything based on their "Unique ID" to avoid issues like this. It's strange how Twitter never implemented something similar.
View quoted note →Shaming Musk? How the F you gonna do that? 🤡🤪😂
Wow, this is a major f-up on their part. Discoverability is everything
Someone mentioned 2FA but well, I don't give my phone number to a platform that's not worth it.
Not the compromised case, but I've read that fiatjaf has been through recently.
Now the Xitter platform is an irreparable well filled with toxic substances from abandoned bodies. I tried my best not to give up on the platform to the end, but surrendered. Booked as the next Myspace.
