11-27-2019, 09:31 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50581287
Twitter has said it will "pause" plans to disable inactive accounts following user backlash, a day after announcing plans for a huge cull of such accounts.
The social network said it now would not remove accounts until it had a process for "memorialising" dead users on the network.
It admitted not having a policy in place was a "miss on our part”.
The firm said it was taking action on inactive accounts due to regulatory concerns.
It said once it had a full process in place, account deactivations would occur in the EU first. This was in order, Twitter said, to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Yeah... I can see the logic of doing something like this, but six months is too short IMO (there are all sorts of reasons why users might be taking extended breaks, with the intention of returning at a later date). And the whole idea of deceased users being caught up in this is rather sad... if Facebook can 'memorialise' accounts, then so can Twitter.
I can definitely understand removing any that signed up years ago and were never used (or were only used once or twice and then never again) - but, for now, I probably wouldn't go further than that.
Twitter has said it will "pause" plans to disable inactive accounts following user backlash, a day after announcing plans for a huge cull of such accounts.
The social network said it now would not remove accounts until it had a process for "memorialising" dead users on the network.
It admitted not having a policy in place was a "miss on our part”.
The firm said it was taking action on inactive accounts due to regulatory concerns.
It said once it had a full process in place, account deactivations would occur in the EU first. This was in order, Twitter said, to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Yeah... I can see the logic of doing something like this, but six months is too short IMO (there are all sorts of reasons why users might be taking extended breaks, with the intention of returning at a later date). And the whole idea of deceased users being caught up in this is rather sad... if Facebook can 'memorialise' accounts, then so can Twitter.
I can definitely understand removing any that signed up years ago and were never used (or were only used once or twice and then never again) - but, for now, I probably wouldn't go further than that.
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