The Inactive-Account Problem is Only Going to Get Worse

How’s Twitter supposed to decide what to keep and what to cull?

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During Thanksgiving week in America, when people celebrate family ties over turkey and pumpkin pie, Twitter announced that it was beginning a massive cull of inactive accounts. Anyone who hadn’t signed in for six months, it warned, would soon have their account wiped from the network.