Twitter plans on deleting inactive accounts

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Are you inactive on Twitter and still plan on being on the app? Then you better watch out and keep an eye on your account because Twitter plans on deleting the inactive accounts. Consider being active in order to save your account.

Earlier last week, Twitter said that it would in this coming month begin removing inactive accounts from their platform. But the company then walked back on that promise because of an uproar, particularly from those who had deceased relatives with inactive accounts and wanted to have some way to maintain them. The company said it will come up with another plan soon.

“We’ve heard you on the impact that this would have on the accounts of the deceased. This was a miss on our part,”         the company tweeted . “We will not be removing any inactive accounts until we create a new way for people to                 memorize accounts.”

Facebook offers a way for user accounts to be memorialized after the account owner has died. Twitter has yet to offer such a function.

Believe it or not, once Twitter comes up with a plan for memorializing certain accounts, the mass deletion plan will resume. While the closures will take place over several months, the goal behind the clean-up is for Twitter to be able to present more credible, accurate, and up-to-date information, rather than be filled with inactive accounts. The move may also make it more difficult for spammers to takeover accounts for their own personal gain. Accounts that haven’t been signed into for at least the last six months will be deemed inactive. Some business owners may complain about the loss of followers from this action.

Many users of the app may not agree with this or may find it unfair but in the end, Twitter’s move will increase the credibility of their platform and for those relying on Twitter to build their communities that’s a good thing.

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