You may have seen in the news that Twitter will begin deleting inactive accounts of users who hadn’t logged in within the past 6 months before Dec. 11, 2019.
This is bad news if you happen to be @qwerty123, but great news if — like me — you’ve found the perfect username but some clueless bovine has been accidentally hoarding it for the past 8 years.
In this post Sean Cann shows you how you can use Google Apps Script to detect when your preferred new Twitter handle becomes available.
Source: How to get that inactive Twitter handle you really want