Elon Musk announces purge of unused Twitter accounts—but there’s a reason Twitter hasn’t already done this

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Twitter is promising to purge its many inactive accounts. Again.

“Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts,” CEO Elon Musk tweeted yester…oh, sorry, that was five months ago. Here’s yesterday’s tweet: “We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop.”