To keep your account active, log in at least every 30 days

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/inactive-twitter-accounts

by ajdude • 3 years ago

10 12 3 years ago

help.twitter.com

mPReDiToR• 3 years ago

Do they need the domain for something?

They're definitely trying to eradicate the userbase of the current tenant.

wrycoder3• 3 years ago

So you think you are going to take an Internet sabbatical? Not allowed anymore.

akoncius• 3 years ago

and then inflate "active user" stats, which then can be manipulated to use for advertisement budgets/pricing..

convenient :)

coldtea• 3 years ago

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.

robin_reala• 3 years ago

So who’ll be the first to write a userscript that background loads Twitter once every couple of weeks?

lapcat• 3 years ago

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.

wrycoder3• 3 years ago

be sure...at least

Keeping the angst going. What a life we lead these days.

LinuxBender• 3 years ago

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?

[1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fortune

wrycoder3• 3 years ago

Yeah, but it'll still weed out the goofers.

dotcoma• 3 years ago

And then auction off the most popular handles.

mozillas• 3 years ago

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.

2Gkashmiri• 3 years ago

please let us know how those inactive handles will be released in the wild once an account is deleted

To keep your account active, log in at least every 30 days

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