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28th Nov 2019

Twitter is looking for ways to ‘memorialise’ the accounts of deceased loved ones

Users are waiting for an update.

Denise Curtin

Yesterday, Twitter announced it was going to do a clear out of all inactive accounts in Europe.

Issuing a tweet, the social media platform said that anyone who hasn’t logged in within the last six months would receive an email and if they didn’t log in again, their account would be deleted.

And although this seems well and good to clear out old spammy accounts and fans pages, it raised a lot of concerns from people who feared the accounts of their loved ones were about to vanish.

Hitting Twitter with anger, many users urged the site to think before clearing accounts as many people use the platform to look back at old thoughts and conversations they had with deceased loved ones.

Twitter then apologised for any confusion and told users that they will keep them posted with an update on how they can memorialise the accounts of people who have passed away.

In the meantime, Jason Scott of Archive Team posted a call out to people who have have accounts they want to save belong to people who have passed away. He told Buzzfeed News that he was sceptical Twitter would actually do anything and so, his team have a way to achieve accounts if needs be.

Here’s hoping Twitter post an update soon.

As Facebook have a way of marking the accounts of people who have passed away, we’re sure Twitter will introduce a similar tool.