Elon Musk Says that Twitter is within the Technique of Purging Inactive Accounts and Liberating Up @Handles

Now may very well be the time to seize that Twitter username that you simply’ve all the time wished, which has to this point been unavailable within the app, with Twitter chief Elon Musk saying that the corporate is presently within the technique of eradicating inactive profiles from its system.

Elon has additionally confirmed that this may end in many @handles changing into accessible, which may provide the likelihood to seize that prime username that you simply’ve all the time wished within the app.

If spammers and scammers don’t snap all of them up first, that’s.

Which was a key drawback recognized on this course of when Twitter first proposed it, shortly after Elon took management on the app.

Again in December, Elon stated that Twitter would quickly be liberating up some 1.5 billion usernames that had been not energetic.

Twitter delayed that course of after customers known as for an exploration of memorialization, so as to hold the accounts of deceased customers nonetheless energetic. However now, Musk is seemingly transferring forward. It’s not clear if memorialization is part of this new plan, however apparently, Twitter is now within the technique of liberating up these @handles.

Does that imply that these accounts, and their previous tweets, can be deleted completely? Will it now be a free-for-all in making an attempt to get these vacant handles, or will there be another course of (at one stage, Elon was entertaining the thought of an public sale for freed account names)?

Does that imply that customers who lose followers in consequence, and probably drop under the edge for, say, monetization will nonetheless have the ability to use Subscriptions?

We don’t know, and since Twitter has no comms division, we will’t ask, we will solely go on what Lord Elon shares with us through his tweets – which may truly be the way in which that Elon likes it.

So, actually, we solely know what you do, and we will solely speculate primarily based on the identical, nevertheless it does appear, primarily based on what Musk has shared, that dormant @handles will steadily be made accessible as Twitter deactivates them over time.

Be aware: Musk has clarified that some accounts, like these of deceased celebrities, can be left, so there can be at the least some concessions.

UPDATE: Musk has added that each one deactivated accounts can be archived, however their @handles can be made accessible to different customers. How that may work in apply stays to be seen.