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You May Lose Your Twitter Account If… — Elon Musk Warns
If you haven’t logged into your Twitter account in a few years, you could be at risk of losing your handle, according to Twitter CEO, Elon Musk.
Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX and a handful of other companies, on Monday, said the social media platform will begin “purging” accounts that “have had no activity at all for several years.”
Musk gave no timeline for when the change will take place but warned that post-expulsion, people should expect their followers to drop.
This comes after Musk said in December that Twitter would start “freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts,” clarifying that these would be “obvious account deletions with no tweets & no log in [sic] for years.”
Unfortunately, Musk didn’t clarify exactly what this would mean for accounts of the deceased or provide an option to memorialize those accounts. And if accounts are opened up for claiming, it could once again lead to another impersonation problem for Twitter, one that continues to plague the site as blue check marks are now available for purchase.
In a reply to Musk, John Carmack, founder of ID Software, cautioned against deleting inactive accounts, saying that it’ll make sourcing historic tweets more challenging. It could also mean that Twitter threads from years ago would be fragmented with gaps of unavailable tweets.
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