Elon Musk starts what might be his biggest Twitter cleanup to date.

Your Twitter following is set to decline, possibly significantly.

The billionaire Elon Musk is still using Twitter, which he paid $44 billion for late last year, to his advantage.

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It appears that Musk's most recent action fulfils a commitment

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he made in December to delete dormant accounts from the network.

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Musk pledged to delete 1.5 billion dormant accounts from Twitter last year

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Musk pledged to delete 1.5 billion dormant accounts from Twitter last year

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But it didn't take long for Musk to start implementing his new account verification policy,

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