What happens if you deactivated your twitter account a while ago? Can you restore a deactivated twitter account? The answer is….NO you cant. Although twitter had this feature a while back. They took it off later. Maybe its a way to deal with spammers? Only twitter has their explanation for it.
I know there are people saying that there is a way to restore a deleted twitter account, twitter did mention that they don’t have the feature at the moment.
Yes it is permanent. So I decided to create a twitter account and delete the account after creating it by clicking deactivate my twitter account. 
Soon after you click deactivate my twitter account, you will be redirected to twitter home page. If you try to sign in with the twitter account you had deactivated you will get this.
Apparently there is NO way to get back your deactivated twitter account. I emailed twitter to confirm this. This is what they had to say. (thumbs up to twitters customer service. The replied me in less than an hour)
So what do you do IF you really want to deactivate your twitter account but get back the same username?
The only method I know so far is to change your username and email before you deactivate your twitter account. For example in my case my username @askaaronlee will be changed to @askaaronleeONE or @askaaronlee1 before I deactivate it.In this case you can create your new account using the username. For my case I can create a new twitter account with the username @askaaronlee
Make sure you change your email address too if you want to use the email to create another twitter account using the email.
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Thanks Aaron, well explained and have bookmarked in case I see anyone else asking.
Thank you Paul,
Some asked me about this, so i decided to post it =)
Thanks for bookmarking this =)
Keep rocking,
Aaron, so cool that you finally have your page. Thanks for all the daily info for the past year or so. You're also a personal communicator whom interacts with users, even though you're many time zones away.
That was a very informative and handy post Aaron. I love your presentation skill and writing. Bookmarked it. A tweet is due!! 🙂
Thank you so much for the comment dear =) Appreciate it. ~hugs~
Thanks mate! Appreciate it. Thank you for the RT mate.
It is always a pleasure to read and RT you. I learn a lot from you.
Thanks man! I learn a lot from you too =)
Have a great weekend my friend =)
My twitter account has not been in the delete, but 3 times in suspend (3 different accounts), there is a solution for the suspend accounts?.
ugghhh i deleted my twitter but now i want it back with the same followers when do u think twitter will put that back on twitter
Hi Aaron
Thanks for posting this about Twitter
account very helpful.
Bonnie
You’re welcome Bonnie =)
awesome post. Bookmarking right away 🙂
but after it is deleted completely after a few day you deactivated it, can you use the same information?
You can't mate 🙂 you have to make sure all the information is changed like username and email if you want to use the same email and username again
what if someone has a username (let's say @happyface) and that person deactivated their @happyface account… what if i wanna use that username? because im in this situation right now, i wanna use a username but someone else has that username. however, they deactivated that account. is it possible for me to use that username?
If they deactivated the twitter account for a certain period of time, lets say 6months and above, you can apply it. Twitter mention that they wanted to release deactivated twitter account but I didn't hear any new news about it
i want my twitter back i made a new one but they said that the email is already ben taken but i deactivate it
Thanks for the info … but seriously Twitter it’s time to let people who deactivated to sign up again with the same email (I can understand not using the same user ID).
no you cant use that @name becuase even though the account was deactived it is still considered taken … i know its stupid … but thats just the way twitter works. I know this cause ive tried. i deleted my old twitter and then made a new one with a different a @name and got tired of that one and tried to change it to the @name that the old one was and it said it was taken.
I created a twitter account & i deleted the account. Now i want to create twitter account with same user name & mail ID…..Is it possible??? please help me
So , someone hacked my account and deleted it. What should i do to get it back? 🙁
how do I create a new twitter account with using an email I had previously used with an old (now deleted) twitter account? This is driving me mad. I would like to use my email to start a new twitter account, but it says it’s already in use, even though the account that used it was deleted.
I don’t want to deactivate my account, but I’m so frustrated. I have a question that I can’t find the answer to.
Here it is: Why is the green circle with + sign in it totally missing. It says to follow me or not. Mine is totally missing. The location is directly opposite of my username. No one elses is gone What does it mean.
if i deactivate my account , can people search for me and find me anywhere or my pic ? while my acc is still deactivated and pic is deleted , does it kept stored ??
if i deactivate my account , can people search for me and find me anywhere or my pic ? while my acc is still deactivated and pic is deleted , does it kept stored ??
if i deactivate my account , can people search for me and find me anywhere or my pic ? while my acc is still deactivated and pic is deleted , does it kept stored ??
if i delete my twitter account is all the information erased? would all my tweets be erased? and even my activity on plixi?
Someone else removed my twitter and now I want to make a new one with the same email, but it wont let me. How can I do this?
I have a active twitter account that I want to log into but when I do it bounces me to my new twitter account how to I get into my old account:
Adi
will i be able to use my email address on my new account
I want to get rid of an old twitter account and transfer my email address onto the new one. Should I deactivate my account so that it releases that email address for re-use?
Have you managed to sort this – exactly my dilemma – although I have yet to press the button to deactivate the account but have someone elses email account on my new tiwtter account. Obviously I want to change this asap
My mate’s ex deleted her account (knew the password as used the same for everything) but my mate got twitter to re-instate it including all the tweets, so it is possbile.
My mate’s ex deleted her account (knew the password as used the same for everything) but my mate got twitter to re-instate it including all the tweets, so it is possbile.
My mate’s ex deleted her account (knew the password as used the same for everything) but my mate got twitter to re-instate it including all the tweets, so it is possbile.
Damn twitter. They are definitely NOT as user friendly as Facebook. Don’t they know that a username is priceless!? If we provide proof of the username, why can’t I get my account back?
hi my twitter account was deactivated by someone that hacked into my yahoo account. can i somehow restore my account?
Hi,
I have been trying desperately to reset my twitter password since I forgot what it was and I’m always sent the wrong link to reset my password. It takes me to twitter’s home page. Any help receiving the correct link would be greatly appreciated. I can’t seem to get in touch with twitter support either, so I hope someone here can help me.
Thank you very much.