WASHINGTON: Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has announced that the popular social media platform will soon be deleting up to 1.5 billion accounts in order to free space for names.
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Taking to Twitter, Musk added that “these are obvious account deletions with no tweets and no log in for years.”
Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022
The move came hours after Elon Musk said “in few week, tweets will show view count just like just like videos do. Twitter is much more alive than people think.”
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In a tweet, he wrote, “Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal.”
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And on the back of that, Musk has now said that the handle names of those accounts — remembering that you cannot have too accounts with the same @name — will be freed up for use.
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Elon Musk had also announced that the company will begin telling users if their posts have been suppressed and give them an avenue to appeal.
