Clear the ghost accounts quietly padding your member count.

Deleting a Telegram account doesn't remove the person from the groups they were in. They stay on as an anonymous “Deleted Account,” still counted in your member total. Over a couple of years an active group can accumulate dozens or hundreds of them.

They're harmless, but they're misleading: they inflate the member count you and prospective members judge the group by, and they quietly skew every per-member stat. Clearing them costs nothing and makes your numbers honest again — which is why Limzo surfaces them instead of leaving you to notice by hand.

Telegram is supposed to clear deleted accounts out of every group on its own. In practice that is slow and inconsistent — it can take days, and admins regularly report ghosts sitting in a group for months — which is why older and larger groups accumulate them rather than self-cleaning.

A deleted account is easy to identify once you know what to look for: it appears in the member list as Deleted Account, with a generic ghost-style avatar and no username.

On desktop — open the group, click the group name to show the member list, find the Deleted Account entries, hover over one and click the remove (✕) icon.

On mobile — open the group profile, go into the member list, long-press a deleted account and choose Remove.

Only admins can remove members, so you need admin rights either way. The catch is the obvious one: Telegram gives you no way to filter the member list for them, so in a group carrying hundreds of ghosts this is a long evening of scrolling. That is the part worth handing to a bot.

There's nothing to set up. As Limzo tracks activity it notices members whose Telegram account has since been deleted, and keeps a count. Your weekly admin report DM includes a 👻 line showing how many are left, with a one-tap 🧹 button that removes them from the group in a single action.

One honest limit, and it's Telegram's, not Limzo's: bots can't read a group's full member list, so the count covers members Limzo has actually seen — not necessarily every ghost that ever joined. The cleanup is part of keeping a group healthy alongside smart moderation and your community analytics.

Ghost cleanup only ever flags accounts that Telegram itself marks as deleted. It never removes real members just for being quiet — an idle member is still a person who might come back, a ghost is an account that no longer exists. When you do want to clear out members who stopped taking part long ago, that is a separate, off-by-default tool under your control: inactive-member cleanup.

And the decision stays yours: out of the box, nothing is removed automatically — the count sits in your weekly report until you choose to act, and clearing it is a single tap. Pro and Ultra groups can opt in to an automatic recurring clean-up, and even then it only ever touches accounts Telegram itself marks as deleted, with every removal tallied in your weekly report.