– Twitter wants to delete unused Twitter accounts for years

“We will be deleting accounts that have been inactive for several years, so you will likely see a drop in followers,” Musk said in his short message service on Monday.

Musk acquired Twitter last October for $44 billion (around €40 billion today). In the course of a chaotic restructuring of the platform, the entrepreneur fired top Twitter management and more than two-thirds of the 7,500 employees. He also had the blue verification tick removed from the accounts of numerous users who do not have a paid subscription.

At the end of April, some media outlets, celebrities and other major Twitter accounts surprisingly got the blue tick back without having signed up for the paid version. Musk wrote that he personally pays for some subscribers.

The measures initiated by Musk deterred users and advertisers. According to market observers, Twitter’s revenue has declined as advertisers avoid the platform.