Now that American billionaire Elon Musk has just bought Twitter, the question of staying registered on the platform may arise. If you don’t see this takeover very favorably, it may be time to leave the platform. Here’s how.
It’s now official: Twitter has been bought by Elon Musk. The American billionaire, who paid the tidy sum of 44 billion dollars to acquire the social network, will soon have full power over the future of Twitter. If he promises to make Twitter a place of the most total freedom of expression, some users, including you, may not see this takeover very favorably.
The earthy boss of Tesla, some of whose reactions can be as sudden as they are unpredictable, has indeed methods and objectives that worry more than one. Because the few efforts put in place by the platform in recent years to limit online harassment and the spread of false information could quickly be shattered.
If you’re worried about this takeover and you’re considering switching from Twitter to another service, it’s probably best to delete your account and all your data associated with it. Find out in the following lines how to proceed to delete your Twitter account.
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1. Go to Account Settings
Open your favorite web browser and go to Twitter.com to log into your account. Once logged in, click on More at the bottom of the left column and enter the Settings and privacy menu.
2. Deactivate your account
Now enter Your Account, then click Deactivate Account.
Confirm deactivation of your account by clicking Deactivate.
Then enter your password to confirm your identity, then click on the red Deactivate button to validate the deactivation of your account.
Twitter does not immediately delete your account. Instead, it offers you to deactivate it, to put it “offline”.
Your account and the data attached to it will therefore no longer be officially accessible on the platform, but will remain dormant for about thirty days. Why ? Simply to allow you to reactivate your account if you change your mind. Beyond this thirty-day period, if you have not changed your mind and taken no action in this direction, your Twitter account and its data will be permanently deleted.
3. Reactivate your account
If you finally change your mind before the end of the thirty days following the deactivation of your account, you can always reactivate it to recover it. To do this, go to the Twitter login page, and identify yourself using your username and password to log into your account and thus reactivate it. Reactivating your account may take some time, so please be patient while all of your data is restored.