A year after promising to create a way for people to memorialize accounts of deceased users, Twitter has yet to launch such a system (Barry Collins/Forbes)

Barry Collins / Forbes:
A year after promising to create a way for people to memorialize accounts of deceased users, Twitter has yet to launch such a system  —  When Twitter threatened to automatically close inactive accounts, it sparked a furious response from users who feared the accounts of their dead friends and family were about to disappear forever.