Twitter does a "cleanup" and begins to purge inactive accounts on the social network

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Inactive accounts are numbered on Twitter . Elon Musk, the owner of the social network with the blue bird, has announced that Twitter is deleting accounts that have been hampered for several years by inactivity (which is not a small number by any means).

"We are purging," Musk confirmed, while warning social network users that their number of followers could be substantially reduced as a result of this measure .


According to Twitter's inactive account policy , Twitter users germany phone number data must log in to their profile at least once every 30 days . Once that period of time has elapsed without any activity on the user's account, Twitter may proceed to permanently delete the profile.

Elon Musk , however, specifically refers to accounts that have been inactive for several years.

Inactive accounts are a problem that all social networks bear on their shoulders. However, most social networks ignore this problem because inactive accounts stealthily fuel the overall user count (which is an extraordinarily relevant metric for 2.0 platforms).

Twitter would like to release Twitter usernames to perhaps sell them
However, inactive accounts inevitably incur storage and management costs. And Twitter, which has been facing draconian cost-cutting measures since Elon Musk took over the social network, is reportedly looking to eliminate such costs.

The social network with the little bird has been dealing with the problem of inactive accounts for several years , but it has not been until now that it has decided to take action on the matter (or at least has made public its intention to do so).

Twitter's desire to free up usernames could be behind this move. Indeed, Elon Musk himself has confirmed that there will indeed be more usernames available after the purge.

This is by no means a trivial fact if we take into account that a few months ago Twitter considered the possibility of selling particularly coveted usernames through online auctions as a way of generating additional income, as reported by TechCrunch .