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this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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Because it's their platform and you aren't using the name. They don't want all the good handles stuck on dead users.
The username is being sold either way. Either Twitter sells it or a bot scoops it up when the inactive accounts get released and sells it.
The original user is not in the question. The names being freed up are from users that have not logged in for years.
Most sites that use a unique username free up old ones periodically so I don't think that's the issue here. Usernames have value and that's why they should be freed and auctioned to people that want them. On a proprietary website like Twitter nothing belongs to the user.
They can have it both ways. Usernames can have value and Twitter can sell them and users can not sell their own accounts.
I looked into who owns the tweets and Twitter said users own their tweet but a us judge ruled that Twitter owns the tweets. I don't think it's reasonable to think you own a Twitter username and I think its reasonable for Twitter to delete your inactive account and release the username and sell it if they want. I don't think you would win a legal battle and Twitter can update their policy to do whatever they need to do to remove your ownership if you had any.