Elon Musk and his associates seem to be continuing to hatch a big plan to target Twitter’s user base, which is to remove about 1.5 billion accounts that are no longer active on the platform.
Accounts prior to deletion will be thoroughly purged to ensure that they have been inactive, and that there have been no related tweets in years. The billionaire said this move will significantly free up usernames for new users on Twitter.
In a new Tweet shared on his personal page, Elon Musk said that it is “natural” to delete some accounts because they have no tweets and have not been logged in for many years.
Before that, Musk has also hinted at his plan to clean up inactive accounts from Twitter. In a post in early November, the head of Twitter said that all accounts that are no longer active in the past 15 years will be deleted, but that is just Musk’s “indifferent” statement.
There is currently no word on how long an account must be inactive before being flagged for deletion. Musk has also once suggested that accounts that have been inactive for more than a year could also be targets for cleanup.
As usual, Elon Musk’s plan is receiving a lot of mixed opinions from the user community. Most people think that Twitter should have a different solution to deal with accounts that are no longer active, especially for the accounts of people who have passed away. Keeping such accounts as a repository for the life of a deceased person should be a humane practice and should be maintained.
(Refer to QTM)