How to Delete a Single Tweet

You can delete any tweet you’ve ever written at any time as long as it belongs to the same Twitter account you’re currently using.  Here’s the process for how to delete a tweet on Twitter.

How to Delete All Tweets From Your Account

If you want to remove all of your Tweets from your Twitter profile at the same time, you’ll need to use a third-party app or service. There are numerous tools for mass tweet deletion available but for this example we’ll use TweetDelete due to it being completely free and rather simple to use compared to its competitors. Here’s the easiest way to delete all of your tweets from your Twitter account.

Can People See Deleted Tweets?

While the tweet deletion process does completely remove your Tweets from the Twitter social network, its apps, and its website, your tweets can still be discoverable via several different methods. Alternatively, you can upgrade to TweetDelete’s premium service which requires a one-off payment of $14.99. This premium tier can remove all of your tweets in addition to providing you with several additional filters and options for when choosing what to remove from your account.

Screenshots of tweets. Someone may have taken screenshots of your tweets and saved them as image files. Offline Twitter apps. Your tweets may still appear in some users’ Twitter timelines if their device is offline or they haven’t refreshed their feeds yet. Online archives. Online tools such as the WayBackMachine create backups of many websites including Twitter. The Cached option in Google search results could also contain old tweets. Twitter HQ. Deleted tweets may be removed from the live service but Twitter keeps numerous backups of content published to its service that they can access when needed. Your Twitter account backup. If you’ve downloaded a backup of your Twitter account, you will be able to view deleted tweets from your device.

How to Back Up All of Your Tweets on Twitter

You can download a full backup archive of your Twitter account and its tweets from the Twitter website. To create your Twitter archive and download it, open your Twitter account settings and select Download an archive of your data. You will then be emailed a link to download the archive file. This Twitter archive is for your own personal record and can’t be used to restore deleted tweets or other Twitter account data.