On Monday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the service will be removing accounts that have been dormant for a number of years. Musk highlighted the importance of this action by claiming that it intends to “free up abandoned handles.”
The billionaire owner of Twitter indicated that inactive accounts would be archived in a different tweet. Musk did not, however, give any details about the timetable for starting this process.
It’s yet unclear how or if Twitter users will have access to the archived accounts at this time.
As a result of numerous inactive accounts, Musk also mentioned that users of the microblogging site would see a drop in the number of their followers.
According to Twitter’s policies, users must log into their accounts at least once every 30 days to avoid having them permanently deleted for prolonged inactivity.
In a recent incident, Musk jokingly proposed giving another corporation control of National Public Radio’s Twitter account. As a result, the public broadcaster stopped updating its 52 official Twitter channels. This was done in response to a Twitter label that said that the broadcaster’s editorial material had been influenced by the government.
Twitter decided to delete the heritage verified blue checkmark off the profiles of many people, including famous people, journalists, and important politicians, in the preceding month.
Musk has included account verification as a part of Twitter’s Blue membership in order to combat the issue of bot accounts on the social media network.