Apr 21, 2011 You just see plain 'This user has deactivated their account' and nothing else. You start pulling your hair, because you don't saved everything you liked in their gallery (just faved it) and even don't know where they can be found now, where did they gone and why, because no info left on their pages! Originally, deviantART users had to send a request to Staff to have their accounts Deactivated, and in the process the Staff would ban the original accounts rather than use a Once a DeviantART account has been deactivated, your profile page including your deviations and journals are pulled from public view and all of your previous comments will. Please note that we absolutely cannot deactivate/delete an account on your behalf. If you have lost access to your account, there is no need to create a new account in order to contact the Help Desk. Since DeviantArt does not delete accounts, any 'extra' accounts created to contact the Help Desk cannot be deleted after the fact or merged into.
If you’re considering deactivating your Twitter account, whether to tackle social media addiction or for other reasons, you might want to read this post and reconsider.
First, a little backstory: I decided to take two weeks off Twitter in mid-November because I was wasting all my time in it. Simply logging out of Twitter on my PC and smartphone didn’t work, so I decided to deactivate my account and delete the Twitter apps. After a few days of back-and-forth tussle, I emerged victorious and stayed off Twitter for ten days. When I reactivated my account in early December, nearly everything was missing.
This is what I have learnt in the process:
Your account data will not be restored immediately
I deactivated Twitter on 23rd November, but was back a day later to tweet some crap (I had to!). When I logged in, all my user lists were empty (followers, following, lists). It didn’t bother me much because my timeline was still updating. Plus, Twitter had warned about delays in data restoration.
After tweeting the aforementioned “crap”, regret set in and I deactivated my account again (I know, I have issues). I reactivated my account about ten days later, and again found all my lists were empty. No big deal, because delays! But things were different this time – my timeline was completely dead. I actually had 0 followers and was following 0 people.
As I looked around, I found more missing stuff. All the mentions were gone from my Interactions tab (a quick search surfaced those tweets, so they were obviously still there but weren’t showing up in the Interactions tab). All the images I had uploaded were gone (the tweets associated with those images were still there). Worst of all, the 800+ tweets I had favorited were also gone (I spotted this after a couple of days). I use Twitter as a complementary bookmark service, so losing all my favorites was a bummer. Again, I did not pay too much attention to all this, because Twitter says it can take up to 24 hours for your data to be restored.
Horrible photo of a good cheesecake that I made. I can’t do photography. Share x for macbook air. pic.twitter.com/eDytIjydVM
— Ashutosh Mishra (@twitosh) November 19, 2013
— Ashutosh Mishra (@twitosh) November 19, 2013
Some of your data may not be restored at all
48 hours passed, and not a single thing had been restored, so I set out to contact an actual person at Twitter. It’s notoriously hard to find someone to talk to at a free online service company (it’s free, don’t complain!), and thankfully that wasn’t the case here. I found a contact form quite easily, and sent an email to The Twitter Support Institution. An email from Cheerful Twitter Employee arrived the next day saying everything was fixed. I am impress, Twitter!
Except, that wasn’t really the case. My followers and following lists were back, my timeline was flowing like butter again, my…no, that was it. Mentions, images, and favorites still missing. I sent another email stating this, didn’t get any answer for three days, so I emailed again. Cheerful Twitter Employee promptly closed the support ticket and let me know that Twitter engineers are on it, and I need not check back. Here’s a snapshot of the full conversation. None of the missing data has been restored since.
I want to be optimistic, and hope that the Twitter engineers will indeed fix this issue one day. Then again, I have been hopeful of getting Login Approvals (two step authentication) in my Facebook account for over a year, and I still don’t have it.
Twitter will delete your account after 30 days
Unlike Facebook, which will retain your deactivated account indefinitely, Twitter will delete your account if you don’t reactivate it within 30 days. Now, this won’t come as a nasty surprise or something – Twitter warns you very clearly during the deactivation process. You will also get email alerts when the deactivation period approaches 30 days. Still, something to keep in mind if you’re considering staying off the Internet for more than a month.
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So, the bottom line is that you shouldn’t deactivate your Twitter account. The entire process might go off very smoothly in your case, but chances are things will break. It’s certainly not as seamless as deactivating/reactivating Facebook.
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That doesn’t mean you can’t take steps to stay away from Twitter (or any other service that you’re addicted to). Log out of Twitter from all your devices. Delete all your Twitter apps and bookmarks. Remove all traces of Twitter from your browser history – this way, the browser won’t recommend Twitter when you start typing ‘t’. Install a tool that will outright block Twitter for a period of time.
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Hi everyone,
I feel literally sick to my stomach I might throw up, but I recently (that is, just a few hours ago), created an account on http://deviantart.com/. I only did so because I wanted to leave a comment under someone's work asking if they'd mind my sharing it elsewher (you don't have to kick me for being stupid and not checking, I'm doing that to myself already after later seeing I could've done that without asking ) but ANYWAY, after later realising this, I had no need for the account and wished to delete it.
To my shock the website says you can't delete an account only deactivate it, by which it will delete any content on the page but you can go back and reactivate it within 48 hours (see 'explanation' here).
I feel like crying because I usually do such a good job of housekeeping my online presence and I let myself down and didn't check beforehand. Now I am faced with a whole account I LITERALLY don't want anymore and can't delete, because it will now store my associated email address/username which I don't want it to have.
I have sent them HelpDesk requests politely asking/begging for them to delete the account, as I literally haven't done anything with it, just created it for a comment I wish I never even posted, but I haven't heard back yet and I'm feeling absolutely sick and I guess I'm just asking if anyone has any advice for me.
The first (and last) time this has happened to me, the Better Busines Bureau (BBB) were able to assist me in forcing this other problematic website to permanently delete my account, and so I've been super wary since that one incident and have kept safe until today and I'm so upset at myself I could cry While this website's ToS says nothing about whether or not accounts can be deleted, you can see they've explicitly said so elsewhere, and now I don't know what to do. Should I make another request in the same way to the BBB or?? Really hope anyone can help me figure this out, knowing beforehand I'm sadly all too aware of my mistake it makes me feel even worse. Thanks, all,
EDIT: Okay, so I know I'm overthinking this - and to anyone who thinks I'm overreacting, I won't disagree but please don't attack me for this, I panic very deeply and easily about this sort of thing and hate having this sort of thing out of my control, I mistakenly assumed I could delete the account like you can on 99.999% of websites particularly one as big as this (I was wrong), but: I don't know if any of you have an account on http://help.deviantart.com/ but on the 'Account' tab of the profile, you're allowed to change the email address freely (I can't change the username though ) - and this is a LAST resort and I am feeling choked just thinking this but - if the admin are unsympathetic monsters who won't let me delete the account, if I change the email account to another email I don't use, that would put me in the clear right? I mean, would that free me from the account, in your opinions?? Not really, I know :/ So sorry for this mess of a post :'( I really hope I can get some help, thanks as always, all
I feel literally sick to my stomach I might throw up, but I recently (that is, just a few hours ago), created an account on http://deviantart.com/. I only did so because I wanted to leave a comment under someone's work asking if they'd mind my sharing it elsewher (you don't have to kick me for being stupid and not checking, I'm doing that to myself already after later seeing I could've done that without asking ) but ANYWAY, after later realising this, I had no need for the account and wished to delete it.
To my shock the website says you can't delete an account only deactivate it, by which it will delete any content on the page but you can go back and reactivate it within 48 hours (see 'explanation' here).
I feel like crying because I usually do such a good job of housekeeping my online presence and I let myself down and didn't check beforehand. Now I am faced with a whole account I LITERALLY don't want anymore and can't delete, because it will now store my associated email address/username which I don't want it to have.
I have sent them HelpDesk requests politely asking/begging for them to delete the account, as I literally haven't done anything with it, just created it for a comment I wish I never even posted, but I haven't heard back yet and I'm feeling absolutely sick and I guess I'm just asking if anyone has any advice for me.
The first (and last) time this has happened to me, the Better Busines Bureau (BBB) were able to assist me in forcing this other problematic website to permanently delete my account, and so I've been super wary since that one incident and have kept safe until today and I'm so upset at myself I could cry While this website's ToS says nothing about whether or not accounts can be deleted, you can see they've explicitly said so elsewhere, and now I don't know what to do. Should I make another request in the same way to the BBB or?? Really hope anyone can help me figure this out, knowing beforehand I'm sadly all too aware of my mistake it makes me feel even worse. Thanks, all,
EDIT: Okay, so I know I'm overthinking this - and to anyone who thinks I'm overreacting, I won't disagree but please don't attack me for this, I panic very deeply and easily about this sort of thing and hate having this sort of thing out of my control, I mistakenly assumed I could delete the account like you can on 99.999% of websites particularly one as big as this (I was wrong), but: I don't know if any of you have an account on http://help.deviantart.com/ but on the 'Account' tab of the profile, you're allowed to change the email address freely (I can't change the username though ) - and this is a LAST resort and I am feeling choked just thinking this but - if the admin are unsympathetic monsters who won't let me delete the account, if I change the email account to another email I don't use, that would put me in the clear right? I mean, would that free me from the account, in your opinions?? Not really, I know :/ So sorry for this mess of a post :'( I really hope I can get some help, thanks as always, all