If there’s one thing humans are aware of unlike any other creature on this planet, it’s that at the end of our life’s journey, death awaits.
Are you dead yet? Twitter wants to know
With several million Twitter accounts – among several other social networks – people that tweet happen to also – well – die.
Now, don’t expect most people to tweet about their death – as it happens – but quite often, friends and relatives of people that used to tweet are often shocked and devastated once the inevitable happens.
Twitter now has a new policy for managing accounts of deceased people.
The family of such an account holder should provide the following, in order to be given account access or even a backup of the deceased person’s public tweets:
- Relative’s full name, contact information (including email address), and relationship to the deceased user.
- The username of the Twitter account, or a link to the profile page of the Twitter account.
- A link to a public obituary or news article.
Would this expand obituaries to include Twitter messages as messages expressing condolences? We’re not sure, but it seems that Twitter is the first such social media network having publicized the rules of death.
Live long and prosper.
I love that dead twitter bird….picture.
Maybe there is tweeter in hell.
Hell twitter.