There are uncountable numbers of inactive accounts on various social media. Twitter has recognised this and it is about to do something about these inactive accounts.
Starting in December, if you haven’t used your Twitter account lately, you might lose your account.
Twitter is notifying users that it’ll start removing accounts that haven’t signed in for at least six months.
It’ll begin the purge after December 11th, although a Twitter spokesperson stressed that the account closures will take place over “many months” — you won’t see legions of usernames become available on December 12th.
The email being sent out has a subject line of “Don’t lose access to @(username).” Here’s what it says:
Hello,
To continue using Twitter, you’ll need to agree to the current Terms, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Use. This not only lets you make the best decisions about the information that you share with us, it also allows you to keep using your Twitter account. But first, you need to log in and follow the on-screen prompts before Dec. 11, 2019, otherwise your account will be removed from Twitter.
You don’t have to post to keep an account, so don’t worry about having to pretend to be active.
The company explained the clean-up as part of an effort to “present more accurate, credible information” that people can rely on.
While it didn’t elaborate on what that meant, this could help you find the users and tweets you’re looking for instead of having to wade through a sea of quickly-abandoned accounts.
