Ask HN: Why is X (Twitter) undeleting deleted content?

by de6u99er on 5/2/2025, 8:18:11 PM with 2 comments
I have already deleted everything multiple times, but the platform seems to undelete most of it after a certain amount of time. That's the only reason why I haven't deleted my account yet.

Is there a technical reason why this keeps happening? Or is it just the platform or it's owner trying to pretend inactive users are still active to avoid more users leaving for alternatives?

  • by pestatije on 5/2/2025, 10:57:13 PM

    my account was suspended and all its content deleted after a while (i can still log in though)...you could try publishing content they might consider against their rules

  • by ljf on 5/2/2025, 8:48:04 PM

    I've not experienced this myself, but this is a good reminder to do and delete all my content there (after redownloading all my data from them again)