{"id":10473,"date":"2022-12-11T17:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts"},"modified":"2022-12-11T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:53:47","slug":"twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Cape verde. <\/strong><\/span>Twitter has announced that it will soon delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts. Chief executive officer Elon Musk announced Friday that the targeted accounts are those which have been left dormant for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwitter will soon start freeing the namespace of 1.5 billion accounts,\u201d Musk said in a tweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are obvious account deletions with no tweets and no log in for years.\u201d Musk became the owner and CEO of Twitter on October 27, after acquiring the social media company for $44 billion.<\/p>\n

The latest announcement is part of the new changes he has introduced since he acquired it. Recently, he announced that tweets will start showing view count just like the videos.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwitter is much more alive than people think,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The CEO has come up with a new update to the micro-blogging platform after the second instalment of the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d revealed how the company build blacklists and actively limited the visibility of certain accounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you have been shadow banned, the reason why and how to appeal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Cape verde<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Cape verde. Twitter has announced that it will soon delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts. Chief executive officer Elon Musk announced Friday that the targeted accounts are those which have been left dormant for years. \u201cTwitter will soon start freeing the namespace of 1.5 billion accounts,\u201d Musk said in a tweet. \u201cThese are obvious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[233,331,328],"class_list":["post-10473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-cape-verde","tag-cape-verde"],"yoast_head":"\nTwitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts - Cape Verde<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Twitter has announced that it will soon delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts. Chief executive officer Elon Musk announce ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts - Cape Verde\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Twitter has announced that it will soon delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts. Chief executive officer Elon Musk announce ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cape Verde\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-11T17:50:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-11T17:53:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/sites\/66\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670768473.25.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-11T17:50:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-11T17:53:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts\"},\"wordCount\":206,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/sites\/66\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670768473.25.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Cape verde\",\"Cape verde\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts\",\"name\":\"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts - Cape Verde\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/sites\/66\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670768473.25.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-11T17:50:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-11T17:53:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Twitter has announced that it will soon delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts. Chief executive officer Elon Musk announce ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/sites\/66\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670768473.25.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/sites\/66\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670768473.25.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/\",\"name\":\"Cape Verde\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts - Cape Verde","description":"Twitter has announced that it will soon delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts. Chief executive officer Elon Musk announce ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts - Cape Verde","og_description":"Twitter has announced that it will soon delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts. Chief executive officer Elon Musk announce ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts","og_site_name":"Cape Verde","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-12-11T17:50:40+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-11T17:53:47+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/sites\/66\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670768473.25.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts","datePublished":"2022-12-11T17:50:40+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-11T17:53:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts"},"wordCount":206,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/sites\/66\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670768473.25.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Cape verde","Cape verde"],"articleSection":["all news","miscellaneous"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts","name":"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts - Cape Verde","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/sites\/66\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670768473.25.jpg","datePublished":"2022-12-11T17:50:40+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-11T17:53:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Twitter has announced that it will soon delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts. Chief executive officer Elon Musk announce ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/sites\/66\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670768473.25.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/sites\/66\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670768473.25.jpg","width":720,"height":720,"caption":"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/twitter-to-delete-1-5-billion-inactive-accounts#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Twitter to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/","name":"Cape Verde","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}