“…why not make a memorable exit from Twitter by engaging in creative resistance? Force Musk to ban you.Tweet about the banned ElonJet account, tweet about the journalists who have been banned about ElonJet – two surefire ways to get banned on Twitter.” https://framelab.substack.com/p/with-trump-returing-to-musks-twitter
@w7voa The problem I see with this approach is that a banned account becomes the equivalent of an abandoned account -- and an abandoned account could be available for reuse including sale as a verified account to a user who may attempt to spoof the original accountholder, and not for constructive reasons.
@raynetoday @w7voa Are you sure that's true? I've been wondering if it was. Since Musk was able to unban all those old right-wing troll accounts, it makes me think that maybe it keeps the name reserved when banned.
@LouisIngenthron @w7voa Don't you think he's had a plan to unban specific accounts all along, especially those who are both favorable to him and/or have lobbied him for their own right-wing agenda?
IIRC there was already a policy in place that dormant accounts will eventually lose access and the names become open for reuse. Why wouldn't he make that a possibility with banned accounts esp if it serves his overtly destructive practices?
Trust Musk at your own peril. Count me out.
@raynetoday @w7voa The accounts were banned long before he took over.
If their names had become open for reuse at some point, then in theory, he wouldn't have been able to reinstate them, because others would have been able to take over the handles long before.
That's what makes me think it might keep banned names reserved under the hood.
Also, that would serve to prevent banned individuals from just re-opening their account when their old username becomes available again.
@LouisIngenthron You do realize coders can do all kinds of "editing" to accounts, yes? With the right permissions they can change anything in the database. The question is whether "god mode" permissions can and will be used to overhaul accounts which are dormant for any given reason. We're merely disagreeing over the ability of Twitter personnel under Musk management to edit a couple records and modify data in specific fields.
Again, trust Musk at your own peril.
@raynetoday We can do a lot, yes, but the core design of the system prevents two accounts from occupying the same handle. No coding magic gets around that.
@LouisIngenthron Sorry I missed your reply as I haven't been on this account for days.
The system doesn't allow two unique account *ID numbers*.
If the account holder has been booted off their unique account ID number, even the original account number regardless of name can be repurposed.
The essential question here is about permissions and how they're used.
@raynetoday To the best of my knowledge, the handle is as unique as the ID. That's why you can use the handle in URLS.
If there are two accounts with the handle JohnSmith, and you go to twitter dot com slash johnsmith, which profile would it pull up? If you at them, which one would it mention?
The system is designed around that value being unique, which appears to be obvious from the exposed functionality.
@LouisIngenthron The username as a unique value is arbitrary. That rule can be changed/suppressed just as a user can change their name to begin with. The records created by a user accrue to the account associated with the ID number which generated them.
@raynetoday "can be changed" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that toot.
