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Twitter suspends account deletions after outcry

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epa04057461 (FILE) A file photo dated 08 November 2013 showing a close up of a Twitter app and a Stock market app displayed on a smartphone, in Berlin, Germany. Twitter Inc had a net loss of 511 million dollars in its first quarterly report since its initial public stock offering, the San Francisco-based company said 05 February 2014, falling further in the red than forecast. Total losses for 2013 were 645 million dollars compared to 79 million dollars in 2012, according to the fourth-quarter report. The social-media company went public on November 6, selling shares to raise at least 1.8 billion dollars to fuel continued expansion. The pace of user growth slowed, with 241 million monthly users, up 30 per cent from 185 million monthly users a year earlier. The rate of growth was 39 per cent in the previous period. Revenue more than doubled to 243 million dollars in the fourth quarter, up 116 per cent from the year-ago period. EPA/Joerg Carstensen

Twitter has said it will “pause” plans to disable inactive accounts following user backlash, a day after announcing plans for a huge cull of such accounts.

The social network said it now would not remove accounts until it had a process for “memorialising” dead users on the network.

It admitted not having a policy in place was a “miss on our part”.

The firm said it was taking action on inactive accounts due to regulatory concerns.

It said once it had a full process in place, account deactivations would occur in the EU first. This was in order, Twitter said, to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

“We apologise for the confusion and will keep you all posted,” the company said in a series of tweets posted on Wednesday.

 

See also: Twitter to remove inactive users

 

 

Via BBC

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