Hotmail vs Twitter problems?

Apparently I began my twitter account with a hotmail email address. Two years later I forgot my password. I go to type in my account name to send a 'forgot password'  email to myself, and nothing happens. So I type in my email. It says my email is not linked to an account. Ok fine, I email them and they say there is a hotmail email address verified to my account but their reply - it is not that one. I ask, great what email address is it? Because I had one when I was twelve and I could have entered it by mistake. The respond - we cannot tell you what email address it is, (they won't let me guess either). I follow their link to contact hotmail about this 'phantom email address'. This link doesn't work. So now, I have a twitter account that I cannot access because I changed the password and it got sent into the internetz - gone forever. Twitter no longer wants to receive my emails, so I am turning to the public for help.