Anti Deleted Accounts 2: auto cleanup

You open a group member list and see dozens of grey Deleted Account entries. They do not write, do not read and only spoil your stats. Anti Deleted Accounts 2 takes over this chore: add the bot as an admin and forget about it. 🧹

It is as simple as can be, which is why it suits owners of big channels and supergroups.

What the bot does

According to its description, the bot checks your channels and supergroups once every 6 hours and automatically kicks all Deleted Accounts, if any. No menus or settings: it works in the background.

One detail from the profile: the bot does not reply to /start. That is not a fault, it just is not built for conversation.

Where the ghost members come from

When a person deletes their Telegram account, a Deleted Account entry stays in your list. They do no harm alone, but they inflate the counter and make it hard to see how many real people are in the chat.

Hunting them down by hand takes ages: a big group can have hundreds. The bot does it without you. 📉

Setup in four steps

1. Find the bot in Telegram search and open its profile.
2. Add it to your channel or supergroup as an administrator.
3. Grant the right to ban users, and switch the rest off.
4. Wait for the next check, which runs on a schedule.

If you manage several communities, add the bot to each one separately. ✅

Which rights to give

The principle of least privilege applies here too. The bot only needs to remove members, so leave chat management, pinning and invites off. The fewer permissions, the smaller the risk if something ever goes wrong.

• Ban users. Required for removal.
• Other rights. Switch them off, the job does not need them.
• Ownership. The bot should never own the channel, admin is enough.

Things to consider

Someone may be cleaned by mistake if their account was deleted and later restored. It is rare but possible. If you care about the list, save a backup of your stats before turning the bot on. ⚠️

Do not hand the bot over to strangers and never give it creator rights. Any third-party bot with admin access is the channel owner's responsibility.

Admins of old groups with long histories and hundreds of inactive profiles, and channel owners who care about honest statistics. For small chats, a manual cleanup once in a few months is enough. 🙂

If it did not work

Check that the bot is still an administrator and has the ban right. Wait for the next check: a six-hour schedule does not mean instant. If entries remain, remove the rights and grant them again.

You can report a problem to the bot owner, whose contact is in the profile. 🔍

Clean base, honest numbers

Advertisers look at reach and activity, not only at subscriber counts. When the list holds many deleted profiles, your figures look worse than they are. Regular cleanup helps you see the real audience. 📊

It also makes real growth easier to spot: with the junk gone, jumps after an ad or a contest show at once, with no correction for ghosts. If you send reports to partners, such figures look more convincing.

One last tip: once a month, review the admin list and remove bots you no longer use. It is good hygiene for any community.