Twitter CEO Elon Musk in a tweet announced that, on the urge of making Twitter a better experience for everyone, the Twitter team will be deleting accounts that have been inactive for several years, he also urged that users might see their followers drop with this exercise begins to take place. Users began making conversation surrounding Elon’s revelation, based on observation, it's clear users are not entirely happy about the actions. They urged Elon to reconsider the decision since there are many inactive accounts with iconic tweets worth looking back on.
Others also argued that deleting such accounts is a wrong step because people have accounts of dead close allies they reflect on to give them some assertive assurance they maybe are dead but they are still with them. Some of the comments users made regarding the incoming exercise are carefully highlighted below;
@angadc •
“Please don't delete accounts of people who have
passed on... it's an important memory for many of
us who have lost family who were active”.
@jlarkytweets •
“Elon, I'll say this politely...
If my follower count dips below 33,652 then I lose
valuable sponsorship money that puts food on the
table Unless you plan to send me a $20,000 check-in
the mail by next Tuesday, reconsider this rash decision immediately”.
@stillgray •
“Do be careful about purging the accounts of dead
people. There should be a way to memorialize their accounts if they are deceased”.
@realJoelFischer.
“But why? Some people don't use their account just to follow news and other stuff, but they don't post or retweet”.
@ID AA Carmack
“I may be reading this incorrectly, but if you are
deleting inactive accounts and all their
historic tweets, I would STRONGLY urge you to
reconsider.
Letting people know how many "active" followers
they have is good information, but deleting the
output of inactive accounts would be terrible. I still
see people liking ten-year-old tweets I made, but the
threads are already often fragmented with deleted
or unavailable tweets. Don't make it worse!
Some may scoff at any allusion between Twitter and
ancient libraries, but while the burning of the library
of Alexandria was a tragedy, scrolls, and books that
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