Twitter to delete inactive account – Elon Musk

Social media platform Twitter Inc will remove accounts that have been inactive for several years, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday.

Musk has said people with fake followers are about to loose them as Twitter would be purging accounts that had been inactive for a number of years.

“We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop,” Musk said in a post an hour ago.

It was unclear whether the policy would affect the account of former President Trump, who has not tweeted since Jan. 8, 2021. Trump was banned from the platform in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, but his account was reinstated by Musk last November.

Musk has made a number of changes to the social media platform since he purchased the company for $44 billion last October.

According to Twitter’s policy, users should log in to their account at least once every 30 days to avoid permanent removal due to prolonged inactivity.

Earlier this month, Musk “threatened” to reassign National Public Radio’s Twitter account to another company, after the public broadcaster stopped posting content to its 52 official Twitter feeds in protest against a Twitter label that implied government involvement in its editorial content.

Twitter last month removed the legacy verified blue tick from the profile of thousands of people, including celebrities, journalists and prominent politicians.

Musk has made account verification a part of Twitter’s Blue subscription, a move he said would tackle the issue of bot accounts on the social media platform.