Twitter said Wednesday it is putting the brakes, for now, on a plan to start deleting inactive accounts that was set to begin next month.

Twitter said it would hold back on the plan to clear out accounts that had been inactive for at least six months after hearing from multiple users about whether or not they would be able to access the accounts of deceased family members after the Dec. 11 deadline Twitter had established. Twitter had already begun informing users that their accounts and usernames were in danger of being deleted if they didn’t log in at least once by Dec. 11.

However, less than 24 hours after announcing the new policy, Twitter took to Twitter to say it had changed its plans.

We’ve heard you on the impact that this would have on the accounts of the deceased. This was a miss on our part. We will not be removing any inactive accounts until we create a new way for people to memorialize accounts. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 27, 2019

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“We’ve heard from you on the impact that this would have on the accounts of the deceased,” Twitter said. “This was a miss on our part. We will not be removing any inactive accounts until we create a new way for people to memorialize accounts.”

Twitter said that it has had a policy on inactive accounts in place for some time, but has never seriously enforced it. The company also said that when it gets around to enforcing the policy, it will start with accounts in the European Union due to EU privacy regulations, and may then expand its inactive account policy to elsewhere, but only before it provides more information on matters such as how to preserve accounts of the deceased.

Twitter had originally said it would begin deleting inactive accounts in part to “present more accurate, credible information people can trust across Twitter.”

Twitter currently has 145 million of what it calls monetizable daily active users (mDAUs), or daily users who are served ads on the social-media platform.