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Following a quick backlash, Twitter Inc. on Wednesday said it is holding off on plans to purge accounts that have been inactive for six months.
The announcement Tuesday sparked concern and outrage by some who worried that tweets of users who have died would be lost forever.
But Wednesday, Twitter TWTR, +0.68% admitted “a miss on our part. We will not be removing any inactive accounts until we create a new way for people to memorialize accounts.”
Unlike Facebook Inc. FB, +1.52% , Twitter does not have a way to preserve accounts of the deceased.
“We apologize for the confusion and concerns we caused and will keep you posted,” a company account tweeted.
It added that the account purge will only occur in the EU — at least for now — to comply with the GDPR privacy law, and only after a memorialization option is established. It did not offer a timeline.
