Yeah, because no other social media service does it, and Twitter didn't do it before Musk.
And how is this predicated on deleting inactive accounts? Companies usually use inactive accounts to inflate the active user stats, by presenting them as active.
Sure, they can then say "everybody remaining has logged within 30 days, so is an active user" which would not be accurate (could just be logging not to lose the account or whatever). But they could inflate their active user count way more, in even muddier waters, by keeping the old inactive accounts and overcounting (as is the standard SV practice).
So, if inflating their active users was the intention, deleting inactive accounts is the opposite of convenient.
This submission title is extremely misleading. What the document actually says is this:
> We encourage people to actively log in and use Twitter when they register an account. To keep your account active, be sure to log in at least every 30 days. Accounts may be permanently removed due to prolonged inactivity.
[emphasis mine]
May be after prolonged inactivity is not the same as will be after 30 days.
Does anyone happen to know of a very lightweight and simple script that can log into Twitter via cron, post a random entry from Fortune [1] as a status update and log out?
fortune -s
Please, won't somebody tell me what diddie-wa-diddie means?
I wish more companies did this. I cannot delete my Coinbase account because I must provide a phone number to log in (which was not needed when I made the account). SendGrid does the same thing.
Yahoo handles it well, I think. They will send an email to your recovery email address to inform you that unless you log into your account in the next 30 days or so, it will be closed.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 45.8 ms ] threadThey're definitely trying to eradicate the userbase of the current tenant.
convenient :)
And how is this predicated on deleting inactive accounts? Companies usually use inactive accounts to inflate the active user stats, by presenting them as active.
Sure, they can then say "everybody remaining has logged within 30 days, so is an active user" which would not be accurate (could just be logging not to lose the account or whatever). But they could inflate their active user count way more, in even muddier waters, by keeping the old inactive accounts and overcounting (as is the standard SV practice).
So, if inflating their active users was the intention, deleting inactive accounts is the opposite of convenient.
> We encourage people to actively log in and use Twitter when they register an account. To keep your account active, be sure to log in at least every 30 days. Accounts may be permanently removed due to prolonged inactivity.
[emphasis mine]
May be after prolonged inactivity is not the same as will be after 30 days.
Keeping the angst going. What a life we lead these days.
Yahoo handles it well, I think. They will send an email to your recovery email address to inform you that unless you log into your account in the next 30 days or so, it will be closed.