Elon Musk acquired Twitter in late October.

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Elon Musk said Thursday that Twitter will soon delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts. He said this would free up "name space" — dormant Twitter handles attached to the accounts. Users often complain that inactive accounts have desirable handles snared in Twitter's early days.

Twitter is preparing to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts to free up dormant handles, or user names, on the platform, owner Elon Musk said Thursday.

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