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This is awfull. 6 months is too short for any account. I can understand the need to cull some never really used accounts. There are a lot of never really logg
by flurdy 7y ago
This is awfull.
6 months is too short for any account.
I can understand the need to cull some never really used accounts. There are a lot of never really logged on accounts filling up the space. So some weeding of those is understandable.
But not ones that have been used but not that active any more. E.g. dead, seriously ill in hospital, backpacking for a year or travelling to Mars.
Or simple just stopped tweeting for a while or permanently. I am sure many now dormant accounts have tweets linked from pages across the internet.
I do hate services that recycle usernames. So open for abuse.
I have a couple that is merely business or project related that tweet once per year if that. They should not be deleted.
I also have a few that I just created to demo something. After a year or so I can not argue against them being deleted.
I registered a few accounts for my kids, who are still too young to use it but thought I'd ensure they have the option of choosing their name as their handle. Never tweeted, so probably a prime candidate for deletion. Unfortunately.
I/we don't know the criteria they use specifically internally to decide who might get deleted. But I hope it is some sort of scoring based on several criteria. Not just when they last logged in. like:
* how many tweets have they sent
* where the account used over time, not just after registering
* last login
* how many times did they login
* does it have a profile picture
* detailed profile
* have they requested not to be deleted
* are any of their tweets backlinked from other sites
* have x followers
* following/followers is more than x
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- fyfy18 7y agoI feel that you are over thinking this. The email I received (apparently I have a lot of accounts I registered for demos but no longer use) says this: "you need to log in and follow the on-screen prompts before Dec. 11, 2019, otherwise your account will be removed from Twitter." So they are sending the email to all inactive accounts, and leaving it up to the owner to perform an action if they want to continue to using it. Apart from the rather short timeframe, it seems like a good way to handle it.
- flurdy 7y agoYes, so far the emails I have received has been for account handles I don't mind if they get deleted. But like Niemöller's prose, which are next? I am hoping they are using sensible scoring as I suggested. Otherwise, if they will keep sending these emails every 6 months, what happens if you miss one of these emails for an account that actually matters. Easily done even if you are not dead, ill, travelling.
- GrumpyNl 7y agoI have received the email.
- whywhywhywhy 7y agoTwitter is just an internet forum with a handful of famous users, internet forums come and go so do user names. Twitter is not the real world, despite what Twitter addicts and journalists (who benefit from Twitter because it makes their jobs easier) would like you to believe, most normal people barely use it. If Twitter disappeared tomorrow I think you'd be surprised how little it would matter.
- tcd 7y agoTwitter et al IS a historical archive of information however - Imagine if Donald Trump's handle was to EVER be recycled, who'd get it? what would the consequences be? What about news pieces that embed or screenshot his tweets? I feel context is vitally important here, usernames are an important identify in who said what at what time, and can be used "on the record".
- austincheney 7y ago> what would the consequences be? Twitter is not and has never been an officially sanctioned government press release channel. The consequences to government and policy would be trivial to none. Since most of the tweets from Trump are void of fact/research or are bizarre conspiracy theories I suspect a troll taking over the account would go largely unnoticed.
- roywiggins 7y agoDoJ lawyers have argued otherwise in court. http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/government_says_trumps_tweets_are_official_presidential_statements http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/government_says_trump...
- austincheney 7y agoBut what did the court confirm? In a more practical context I was in CENTCOM supporting troops in Syria when news of complete withdraw stunned the world via Twitter. The military did not act on a tweet. No formal change in policy in the government occurs via tweet. In a more clear example remember back when Trump ordered, via tweet, the military will ban all transgender persons from military service? The military ignored that tweet without repercussion.