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.
According to a recent post by Musk, Twitter will be taking down inactive accounts under a more relaxed standard than what the official policy states. Instead, he said this move will affect accounts that have had zero activity for years….