Twitter’s Set to Free-Up Unused Twitter Handles, Add Up-Front View Counts to Tweets
It’s Friday, so it’s time to check in on what’s happening at Elon’s ‘Twitter 2.0’ this week.
Musk has slowed his declarations of late, with Twitter’s upcoming $8 verification plan still in development, and other updates being worked through by Twitter’s reduced engineering team.
But there have been a few, smaller updates announced that Twitter now has in the works, which could be of interest.
First off, Musk says that Twitter will soon free up dormant accounts, making many @handles available once again:
Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022
Musk flagged this a few weeks back, noting that Twitter just needed to work out how to deal with accounts of deceased users that should possibly be memorialized in some way. It’s unclear if that’s still part of the plan, but it seems like a whole lot of Twitter handles are about to be re-released back to users.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022