how do I cancel my twitter account and start a new one?

doug02346: how do I cancel my twitter account and start a new one?
In my haste to open a twitter account I thought up a really dumb user name and went with it. Now I’m more serious about using twitter. How do I close out my existing account and open a new one. I can’t use the same email address on two accounts.

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Answer by MLM
To deactivate your account:

Log in to Twitter
Click Settings
Click ‘deactivate my account’ at the bottom of the page
Verify that you really want to do it and voila, it’s done.

To see a screenshot and other info regarding cancelling your account, see the Twitter Support page below. Also note it states that it could take up to 30 days for your account to be fully removed so you may want to consider creating a new email address and start from scratch.