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The news caused outrage among people fearing they could lose tweets that now-inactive accounts, including those belonging to users who have died, left behind on the app. (AP Photo/Richard Drew ...

TikTok has an inactive policy of 180 days and if the user you are searching for has not used their account for a longer period, the username does not exist.

Twitter users may soon notice a decrease in their follower numbers, as the company’s CEO Elon Musk announced he intends to purge accounts that have been inactive for several years. The move is part of ...

It is something that social media platforms have wrestled with for recent years. Twitter backed off an attempt to purge inactive accounts in 2019, years before Musk arrived, due to a similar backlash.

It is something that social media platforms have wrestled with for recent years. Twitter backed off an attempt to purge inactive accounts in 2019, years before Musk arrived, due to a similar backlash.

What does that mean for now-deceased users? Last week, owner Elon Musk announced Twitter would be purging accounts that have had no activity for several years.

Twitter is “purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years," creating an outcry from those who have lost, or fear losing a link to deceased loved ones.