Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for $ 44 billion and has made radical decisions since then, announced his new decision about the platform. According to the statement made, 1.5 billion accounts that have not been tweeted for years and that have not even been logged in will be deleted in the near future. All data belonging to the aforementioned accounts will be deleted from the database.
Elon Musk did not mention the details of his decision. In other words, it is unknown how long an account must have been inactive for it to be deleted. However, there is one very important conclusion we can draw from here. User names belonging to 1.5 billion accounts will be wasted with the decision taken. Thus, other users will be able to retrieve their formerly used usernames.
Elon Musk’s statement on the subject is as follows:
We will be clearing the namespace of 1.5 billion accounts soon. Accounts that have not been tweeted or logged in for years will be deleted from the platform.
It is not known when the new decision will come into effect. Of course, since the conditions for the accounts to be deleted are not known, it is not clear how real users who want to protect their accounts will get rid of it. On the other hand, this application will also prevent an important ‘market’ on Twitter:
Usernames were snatched up and sold:
Usernames, especially meaningful and in short format, were pre-snatched by various parties and could be sold for money to those who wanted to use that username. With the new decision, this order will also be somewhat disrupted. Of course, it is not yet clear whether there will be a situation such as the resale of wasted usernames.
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