You should strongly consider, when meeting people on this network and considering following or engagement, to still search Twitter for their past activity. There are a lot of unscrupulous figures trying to take advantage of the lack of search functionality here to escape accountability for miseries they created on more investigation-friendly platforms years ago, to rebuild their brands & audiences largely free of criticism.
Sadly, the same paradigms that protect your privacy here will offer types of cover to bad actors for histories that no one should ever be able to fully "escape". We should recognize that platforms have purposes they serve, and this one is different from any other before it. There is no one correct path to take; all are incomplete and microblogging presents particular needs and challenges. The destruction of cultural "canon" institutions like Twitter demands our most critical and proactive collab
