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Twitter should offer a way to memorialize dead people's accounts before removing accounts that have been inactive for over six months

Editor's note: Drew is a geek who first worked at AOL when he was 16 years old and went on to become a senior writer at TechCrunch.

TechCrunch Drew Olanoff

Discussion

  • @johncolucci John Colucci on x
    A big part of this news is that deceased folks with great legacies on the platform likely will be purged (i.e. @carr2n) “We do not currently have a way to memorialize someone's Twitter account once they have passed on, but the team is thinking about ways to do this.” -Twitter htt…
  • @nabeel Nabeel Hyatt on x
    I had not thought of this angle, I admit. I love twitter for all it's crazy humanity, and hope they find a way to incorporate empathy here. https://twitter.com/...