[quote=@Odin]
A simpler way to do that would be to just make statuses expire so that after a week they get purged
[/quote]

I'm opposed to that idea. I know some people use their status as a quick 'I'm going to be gone for a while', just in case they missed telling any of their partners. It makes sense for it [i]not[/i] to delete/expire after a short amount of time.

Unless you're talking about non-current statuses.