Elon Musk’s ‘Big Bang’ is underway; to reinstate 62K suspended Twitter accounts

New York: Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk has reportedly begun “The Big Bang,” a new initiative that will see thousands of previously banned accounts reappear on the social network.

It’s reported that a total of around 62,000 banned accounts with more than 10,000 followers are being reinstated — and one of them has more than five million. While the exact names of the accounts are unknown, it’s a move that isn’t expected to go well.

The project could cause more instability at Twitter at a time when the company is facing a severe engineering talent crunch, the report said late on Tuesday, quoting current employees.

“Each reinstatement requires Twitter to rebuild a social graph, activating data on who the account follows and who follows the account. For large accounts like Trump’s, with 88 million followers, that’s millions of lists that Twitter has to update and maintain,” the report informed.

Musk calls his move as “general amnesty to suspended accounts”.