Twitter warns users over ‘clean-up’
Twitter has started warning users who have been inactive on its platform for more than six months that their account risks being deleted as part of a huge “clean-up”.
The social network is reaching out to people affected, saying they have until 11 December to log onto the service in order to prevent the removal.
While the move will be celebrated by those looking for much-desired handle names that lie dormant, some have expressed concern about losing accounts which belonged to someone who has died.
Jo Cox’s widower and a Manchester terror attack victim’s family have said they fear losing the “digital legacy” of loved ones. under the proposals by twitter.
Twitter’s biggest rival, Facebook, allows family and friends of the deceased to freeze their account, so it can still be viewed and messages can be posted on their page.
There is no indication of how soon freed-up account names will be made available for others once the cull gets under way.