In the first place Twitter will delete users outside of the UNITED states, which has been active for more than six months.
Twitter makes ready to delete inactive users. It writes the BBC.
social media will delete all users that have not been active for more than six months, if not they log in to Twitter before 11. december.
this is The first time that the social media platform deletes inactive accounts in such a large scale.
Twitter has sent e-mails to the users which will be affected by the clean-up. It is initially inactive users outside of the UNITED states, which will be deleted.
It is not know how many users of the measure include.
the Purpose is to clear out the users because they haven’t been active nor has been able to accept the updated privacy policy, informs the company.
A spokeswoman for Twitter informs that the action at the same time, to increase the credibility. For it can give users an Celtabet exaggerated sense of importance, if they have many followers, which actually are not active.
– As part of our efforts to serve the public conversation, we are working to clean up the inactive users in order to present more accurate and reliable information, as people on Twitter can rely on, writes Twitter in a communication according to the BBC.
Among the users who will be deleted, are deceased persons. Twitter offers unlike Facebook you cannot make an account on to a so-called “mindeside” for the deceased.
Twitter has 145 million active users daily. This was demonstrated by twitter’s recent accounts from september.
Twitter has been accused of wanting to delete the inactive users to make more usernames available on the social media. But it rejects the company.
According to the BBC Twitter will in the future also start to look at the users who log on, but not doing anything actively on the platform.
A spokeswoman for Twitter will the BBC not elaborate further. But she adds that the company uses many different signals to determine whether or not there is a real person behind a user.
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