A couple of weeks ago, I was informed that Twitter had lifted my suspension and my old account was now restored. It had been five years. I logged in and laughed at what had been restored and what had been lost. Old tweets were there, mostly links to my post on that day or to a news item. The follower count was gone, but the handful of people I followed back then were still on the profile.
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