As Gizmodo points out, the number of active accounts on Twitter has been falling steadily since Musk took over the platform and made some unpopular changes. Musk himself stated the opposite a few months ago – apparently user activity is higher than ever and the number of new signups is 66% higher than in the same period a year ago.

away, old accounts

Musk announced that there will be no more inactive accounts soon, tweeting:

We’ve been removing accounts that haven’t shown any activity for several years, so you’ll likely see a drop in follower count.

While users have expressed disappointment that their follower count will decline, this isn’t the first time the site has tried to get rid of inactive users.

This process has another side of the coin. Some people who lost their loved ones expressed their concerns that the profiles of their relatives and friends will be lost after this purge. They’re asking Musk to keep these pages of the dead, but it’s unclear what the procedure might be. Its closest analogue can be seen on Facebook.

Musk did not provide additional information on how often Twitter will search for and remove inactive accounts. According to this current policy companies related to inactive accounts, Users must log into the social network at least once every 30 days if they want their account to be considered active.. Archive version This policy indicates that as recently as April 19, the policy requires a semi-annual sign-in to keep an account active. It looks like Twitter has subtly updated its rules over the past few weeks.

It’s worth noting that deleting inactive accounts has been in the plans since Musk bought the platform last year, when one of the users “absolutely” responded to a request to delete inactive pages. Musk brought up the issue again in December by tweeting the company. “1.5 billion accounts will start freeing up namespace soon”. He also criticized bots as part of this collection of inactive accounts and tried to use that as a reason to stop the $44 billion Twitter buyout. At the same time, the billionaire is trying to “verify all real people.”

Musk’s latest statement may be an attempt to attract users back to the platform so that they do not lose their pleasant-sounding nicknames.

It is interesting that recently there have been suggestions that Musk may also change the definition of inactive accounts and now only count those who tweet active, not those that come at least every 30 days. Such rumors circulated the network after Elon Musk once again faced off with US National Public Radio (NPR), which stopped broadcasting his tweets on April 12 as part of a protest against calling the organization “State-Controlled Media”. this is not actually the case, as management claims. As previously reported by Channel 24, Musk wrote a letter to the broadcast, threatening to turn the NPR page over to someone else if he didn’t continue his radio activity.