Twitter has announced that it will remove the accounts of inactive users in December.<\/p>\n
The company is targeting profiles that have shown no activity in the last six months. This cleansing process will start on 11 December and will be completed over a number of months.<\/p>\n
Twitter told The Verge<\/a><\/strong> that it was deleting the accounts in an attempt to present more reliable information on the platform.<\/p>\n \u201cAs part of our commitment to serve the public conversation, we\u2019re working to clean up inactive accounts to present more accurate, credible information people can trust across Twitter.”<\/p>\n “Part of this effort is encouraging people to actively log-in and use Twitter when they register an account, as stated in our inactive accounts policy<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d Twitter said.<\/p>\n The company said it will notify users who have not signed onto the platform in recent months that their account may be in danger of being deleted.<\/p>\n It should be noted that tweeting is not a requirement for keeping an account in an active state, only logging in.<\/p>\n The decision will lead to the removal of the accounts of deceased persons and the deletion of their entire tweet history.<\/p>\n Twitter said it was considering a way to memorialise these accounts.<\/p>\n The process will also gradually free up usernames assigned to inactive accounts.<\/p>\n It is unlikely that bots and secondary accounts will be affected as long as they remain active.<\/p>\n Twitter has announced that it will remove the accounts of inactive users in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":149689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2808,405],"class_list":["post-329889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329949,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329889\/revisions\/329949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Freeing up usernames<\/h3>\n
Now read: Twitter to let all users hide replies<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"