Twitter to delete 1.5 billion accounts, announces Elon Musk

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Friday created associate announcement of removing regarding one.5 billion ghost accounts from the microblogging web site because of their inactivity. 

Taking to Twitter, the wealthy person said: "Twitter can shortly begin liberating the name house of one.5 billion accounts."

However, the Tesla and SpaceX owner processed that solely those accounts are going to be deleted that have "no tweets and no log sure years". 

"These square measure obvious account deletions with no tweets & no log sure years," wrote Musk on Twitter. 

Musk, UN agency took possession of Twitter in Oct, has proclaimed creating many changes to the website — a number of that square measure heavily criticised by users.

A day earlier, Twitter planned to vary the rating of its Twitter Blue subscription product to $11, from $7.99, if got through its iPhone app and to $7.

The move was probably a pushback against Apple's half-hour cut on any payments created by users via apps on the iOS software package, the report aforementioned.

The lower rating on the web site was additionally probably to drive a lot of users to it platform as hostile language au fait their iPhones, the report aforementioned. It didn't mention whether or not rating would amendment for the robot platform in addition.

Musk is aiming to roll out the micro-blogging site's verified service with totally different colored checks for people, firms and governments when a unskilled initial launch light-emitting diode to a surge in users impersonating celebrities and types on the platform.

Musk, in an exceedingly series of tweets last week listed numerous grievances with Apple, together with the half-hour fee the iPhone maker charges code developers for in-app purchases.

He additionally announce a acculturation suggesting he was willing to "go to war" with Apple instead of paying the commission. 

Musk later met Apple chief govt Tim Cook at the company's headquarters and later tweeted that the misunderstanding regarding Twitter being far from Apple's app store was resolved.