Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Removing Inactive Accounts, Freeing up Desired Usernames

Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Removing Inactive Accounts, Freeing up Desired Usernames
The Twitter logo is seen on a phone in this photo illustration in Washington, on July 10, 2019. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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Twitter owner Elon Musk said the platform is permanently removing inactive accounts to release desirable usernames back into rotation, a move that had long been promised but never delivered.

While Twitter does have an inactive account policy in place, it hasn’t done much to enforce it. The platform encourages users to log in at least once a month to stay active, noting that the system determines an account’s inactivity based on logging in—not posting.

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