You should also know that while your account will
disappear a few minutes after deleting it, the company
says that “some content may be viewable on twitter.com
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no control over how your tweets are indexed by Google
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disappear from the internet.)
Before you get started, be aware that if you want to
make your username or email address available for re-
use (each Twitter account must be associated with a
unique email address), change them before your
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and privacy and change your username and email in the
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will be sent to your new address before the change goes
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the bottom and select Deactivate my account.
Twitter will ask you to enter your password to verify
that you truly want to say goodbye. You do, so click it,
and you are good to go. If you regret the decision within
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and you are once again free to tweet.
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Twitter states
that it has no
control over
how your
tweets are
indexed by
Google and
Bing.