My deleted Twitter account was instantly taken over by crypto scammers

  • Huh, just checked. My previously deleted account is now a suspended account, so I suppose probably it was taken over by scammers for a while.

  • So, after deactivation and the expiry time, it doesn't reset the account or require and kind of verification to prove you were the prior owner, it just keeps everything as it was before?

  • Since twitter shafted their REST api, does that mean that these bots just scrape the site 24/7 and constantly check for when users deactivate?