I'll be interested to hear just how many accounts go. Any user generated content site that has been around a few years is at least half inactive accounts (many of them barely used from the start). And that's not even counting all the bot accounts at sites like Twitter or Instagram which are used for everything from political manipulation and scams to simply paid boosts to people's follower numbers.
It's a lot of storage for sites, but I suspect that most don't undergo the time and cost it takes to weed them out for bigger reasons. It's not a good look when it turns out their sites are much more lightly used than assumed -- plus they can't sell as much "visibility" to advertisers.
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Date: 2023-05-11 01:47 pm (UTC)It's a lot of storage for sites, but I suspect that most don't undergo the time and cost it takes to weed them out for bigger reasons. It's not a good look when it turns out their sites are much more lightly used than assumed -- plus they can't sell as much "visibility" to advertisers.