Before closing your X.com account
When you close your account on X (formerly Twitter), there’s a chance that someone could create a new account using your old username, which could lead to identity theft. To reduce this risk, it’s advisable to change your username before deleting the account (for example, from the original @username to a new @user_name). Then, to prevent anyone else from taking your old username (in this case @username), you can create a new account and assign that username to it before deleting your main account. This way you keep control of your original name, but with no content attached.
Another option is Cyd.social, an app that lets you delete tweets selectively or empty your account and leave X while keeping your username (it’s curious that this app was promoted by Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, on Nostr).
