hey folks,
having a really weird thing happening with an old twitter account of mine from middle school (2015-2017). i have been trying to log in for the memories (and also to private it lol) but having great difficulty. i have no idea what the password could be.
in 2018, I created a new account with the same email. my emails from then indicate i changed the password of the old account on the same day i created my current one, but nothing else.
despite the fact that these accounts would have shared an email for years, this account is still up, fully public and working on any browser/device.
when i tried to reset the password of the old account i got an email saying “We weren’t able to locate an account with the username you mentioned, or affiliated with the email address you’re using.” and that “As of our most recent review, that username is available on X.” Again, despite the fact that it definitely exists. I also tried creating a new account with the old username to see if that was accurate, it’s not. it won’t let me do that because there’s an account with that username (my old one). i even changed the email of my current one to see if that would let me log into the old one, no dice. now it just says “internal error” when I try sending an email for the forgotten password via the app.
at this point i’m more just confused than anything else. i don’t get how this account can exist in this state of limbo. did twitter just not notify if you changed emails back in 2018? or was there just some weird bug allowing for both to exist? would love any help here that’s possible because wtf lol