Elon Musk to Remove 1.5 Billion Twitter Accounts, Announces New Feature
Elon Musk announced in a series of early Friday morning posts that Twitter be removing 1.5 billion users from the platform in the near future in another shakeup at the company.
The new owner of Twitter, who purchased the social media platform in October, said that the removal of user accounts will be done to free up names for people who use the website. Accounts that will be flagged for removal are ones that have not logged in “for years,” he said.
“Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts,” Musk wrote, adding, “These are obvious account deletions with no tweets & no log in for years.” Musk did not elaborate more on what accounts might be removed….