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title: "How to get that inactive Twitter handle you really want using Google Apps Script"
author: "Sourabh Choraria"
date: 2020-01-21T13:04:24+00:00
modified: 2020-01-21T13:04:27+00:00
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markdown_url: https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/01/how-to-get-that-inactive-twitter-handle-you-really-want-using-google-apps-script.md
categories:
  - "Solutions"
tags:
  - "Medium"
  - "seancann"
description: "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..."
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# How to get that inactive Twitter handle you really want using Google Apps Script

[![](https://miro.medium.com/max/614/1*Y8uIrSRE1PADlwUm0UnXnQ.png)](https://medium.com/@seancann/how-to-get-that-inactive-twitter-handle-you-really-want-cd3f49e5f464)

> You may have seen [in the news](https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/26/twitter-will-free-up-handles-by-deleting-inactive-accounts/) 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](https://twitter.com/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*](https://medium.com/@seancann/how-to-get-that-inactive-twitter-handle-you-really-want-cd3f49e5f464)

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*Published by [Sourabh Choraria](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/scriptgs/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/01/how-to-get-that-inactive-twitter-handle-you-really-want-using-google-apps-script/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/01/how-to-get-that-inactive-twitter-handle-you-really-want-using-google-apps-script/)*