Just yesterday, Twitter had reported that they will be removing inactive accounts from its site for users who haven't logged in more than 6 months. But after receiving a ton of feedback from the user base in regards to user accounts of those who are dead, Twitter has decided to pause the inactive account removal process. At the moment, Twitter has no method of memorialising an account after a user died. Facebook is known to have had this feature for a long time now. This basically allowed the user account to be continued as a memory account, managed by a close relative or friend of the user. Twitter never had this feature. When Twitter announced that they will be purging accounts that have not been signed into for more than 6 months, there was a lot of backlash from the community in regards as to what would happen to the accounts of their deceased loved ones. This impacts accounts in the EU only, for now. We’ve always had an inactive account policy but we haven’t enforced it consistently. We’re starting with the EU in part due to local privacy regulations (eg, GDPR). — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 27, 2019 Today, in a series of tweets ...
Thursday 28 November 2019
Twitter pauses inactive account deletion after strong feedback from users
Just yesterday, Twitter had reported that they will be removing inactive accounts from its site for users who haven't logged in more than 6 months. But after receiving a ton of feedback from the user base in regards to user accounts of those who are dead, Twitter has decided to pause the inactive account removal process. At the moment, Twitter has no method of memorialising an account after a user died. Facebook is known to have had this feature for a long time now. This basically allowed the user account to be continued as a memory account, managed by a close relative or friend of the user. Twitter never had this feature. When Twitter announced that they will be purging accounts that have not been signed into for more than 6 months, there was a lot of backlash from the community in regards as to what would happen to the accounts of their deceased loved ones. This impacts accounts in the EU only, for now. We’ve always had an inactive account policy but we haven’t enforced it consistently. We’re starting with the EU in part due to local privacy regulations (eg, GDPR). — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 27, 2019 Today, in a series of tweets ...
