Twitter will delete about 1.5 billion inactive accounts: Know the reasons
Elon Musk announced that Twitter has plans to remove an estimated 1.5 billion inactive accounts to make usernames, or identifiers, available again on the platform. Deleted accounts will be those that have been inactive for years and have no tweets associated with them. Musk said the change will free up the “namespace” on the platform.
Elon Musk had already promised to remove inactive Twitter accounts, announcing in November that accounts inactive for 15 years would be deleted. It is however not known as how long an account must be inactive before it is flagged for deletion. Musk also suggested that accounts that had been dormant for over a year could also be targeted.
In a separate tweet Musk also said that his platform is developing a process that will inform users if their tweets have been deleted through a practice known as “shadow banning”.
Millions of accounts prepare to be banned from Twitter
Users will be able to appeal the ban if they are notified that their tweets have been deleted. He also mentioned that the social network is working on a software update that will show users the true status of their account.
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