• Elon Musk Twitter CEO stated 1.5 billion “ghost” accounts will be terminated.
• Only accounts with “no tweets and no log in for years” are eligible,
• The change likely a reason from Apple’s 30% portion of iOS app payments.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, said on Friday that about 1.5 billion ghost accounts would be deleted from the microblogging site because they were not being used.

When the billionaire went on Twitter, he said:: “Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts.”

Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022

But the owner of Tesla and SpaceX made it clear that only those accounts that have  “no tweets and no log in for years”.

Blue tick

Musk bought Twitter in October and has said he will make several changes to the site, some of which users are very upset about.

Information’s report said that Twitter planned to raise the price of its Twitter Blue subscription product from $7.99 to $11 if it was paid for through the iPhone app and from $7 if it was paid for on the website. This was to happen the day before.

The move was likely a reaction to Apple’s 30% cut of any payments made by iOS users through apps, the report said.

According to the report, the lower prices on the website were also likely to entice more people to sign up there rather than on their iPhones.It didn’t say whether prices for the Android platform would also change.

Musk plans to roll out the microblogging site’s verified service with different coloured checks for people, companies, and governments. This is because the first launch went wrong, which led to a lot of people pretending to be celebrities and brands on the site.

Musk made a list of his problems with Apple in a series of tweets last week. One of them was the 30% fee that Apple charges software developers for in-app purchases.

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He also put up a meme that said he would “go to war” with Apple instead of paying the commission.

Musk later met Apple CEO Tim Cook at the company’s headquarters. He later tweeted that the misunderstanding about Twitter being taken off Apple’s app store was cleared up.