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		rasz on Dec 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter will delete 1.5B accounts to free up space... >1.5B accounts to free up space 1.5B dormant accounts, probably less than 1TB of storage. And as a bonus you get to hijack someones old deleted twitter handle.

mlindner on Dec 13, 2022 [–]

The title is wrong "free up space" is in reference to freeing up the accounts for others to use.

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