With Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, many significant changes have taken place on the social media platform. Elon Musk, who caused a major debate by changing the blue checkmark policy, has now made a critical decision for inactive accounts on Twitter.
Inactive accounts on Twitter will be closed
In his latest post, Elon Musk announced that Twitter will clean up inactive accounts on its platform. Announcing that accounts that have been inactive for the last few years will be removed, Elon Musk warned users that their follower counts may drop.
Twitter has had a policy regarding inactive accounts that has not been enforced for a long time. According to this policy, Twitter asks its subscribers to log into their accounts at least once a month. However, this policy had never been implemented until now. Elon Musk is putting this policy into effect in a much softer way.
On the other hand, with the deletion of inactive accounts, many usernames will also become available. Elon Musk also stated in his announcement that these account names can be used. Thus, those who want to can take the usernames of inactive accounts.
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A few months ago, Twitter announced that it would generate additional revenue by selling desired usernames through online auctions. In December 2022, Musk tweeted that Twitter would soon begin freeing up the namespace of 1.5 billion accounts, and as part of this process, inactive accounts would be deleted. The popular businessman announced with his latest post that this process has begun. However, no statement has been made yet regarding the auctioning of account names.
By removing inactive accounts, Elon Musk may start a new debate on Twitter. On the other hand, some subscribers who have been waiting for a long time to get their desired username are quite satisfied with this situation. What are your thoughts on inactive Twitter accounts? You can share your opinions with us in the comments section.
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