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> In future, the firm said it would also look at accounts where people have logged in but don't "do anything" on the platform.

Yes, Twitter is going to purge a lot of accounts, the same accounts Twitter boasted about having pre IPO in order to fake growth.

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That sucks!

I have an account. I log in but I never post. I only use it to follow some interesting accounts —that is all. I don’t contact customer service i don’t feign outrage I don’t virtue signal I don’t post memes... it’s by all means passive.

WTF, I just want to follow some accounts which disseminate useful information.

I think that counts as doing something

That represents probably the overwhelming majority of Twitter usage. Your account will be fine.

They probably have ways of getting the metric usage for lurkers

Do you come into contact with Twitter advertising? Then you’re probably fine.

> Twitter will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for more than six months, unless they log in before an 11 December deadline.

I’m responding to my parent poster who quotes: “In future, the firm said it would also look at accounts where people have logged in but don't "do anything" on the platform.”

I guess it depends on what “don’t do anything” translates to in Twitterspeak.

Maybe "on the platform" should be emphasised. Like if you just use your twitter account to log into another site or something.

The old Yahoo Mail strategy. See how well that one worked out.

I don't get this reference: what happened at Yahoo mail and how did it work out?

They removed inactive accounts. And made the handles available to register again by someone else.

The best type of twitter account is the one that brings eyeballs to the platform. Yours is the second best. You're fine.

I do the same with Reddit and HN - I have an account because I'm on the platform, but I rarely comment. This probably won't be a great move for Twitter, especially given how little time they've provided.

> The cull will not affect Twitter's reported user numbers, as the firm bases its usage level only on users who log-in at least once a day. According to its latest earnings report, from September, Twitter has 145m "monetisable" daily active users (users who come into contact with Twitter's advertising on a daily basis).

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