Twitter has tried to reclaim the usernames of inactive accounts before, but stumbled over how to deal with dead users.
Elon Musk wants to make Twitter usernames a renewable resource.
“Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts,” the mercurial CEO tweeted last night. “These are obvious account deletions with no tweets & no log in for years.”
As with many of the changes announced but not yet implemented at Twitter since Musk took over the company on Oct. 28, those tweets leave a great deal to the reader’s imagination.
How many years of inactivity is Musk talking about here? Great question! Musk has yet to answer dozens of tweets asking for clarity on that point, although he did have time Friday to tweet back to such luminaries as @catturd2 and @cb_doge.
Can there really be one and a half billion long-dormant Twitter accounts? That seems like a lot, considering that it reported only 237.
