TweetDelete FAQ
What is TweetDelete?
TweetDelete is a service for Twitter users. It allows you to automatically delete your Twitter posts that are older than a maximum age you specify.
Why is TweetDelete useful?
TweetDelete is useful for people who want to reduce the amount of old data in their Twitter account (perhaps because of other apps they use on it) or people who want to limit the amount of data about themselves they expose online. Tin foil hats are optional!
Does TweetDelete just run once or does it keep working on my account?
TweetDelete is an automated service and runs on your account daily. Once you've activated TweetDelete, it will check your account every day for new tweets that have become older than the age you specified and it will delete them for you. You are free to disable Tweetdelete at any time.
Does TweetDelete work with any number of tweets?
For technical reasons TweetDelete can only work within the latest 3,200 tweets on your account. Tweets older than this are not easily accessible via Twitter's interface and since we're not able to find them, we can't request that they be deleted. For the same reasons they're very difficult for anyone else to find either, so tweets over this limit are of lesser privacy concern at this time.
Once you've activated TweetDelete, provided you make less than 3,200 posts per the deletion timeframe you've selected, all future posts should be deleted as you'd expect.
How do I turn off TweetDelete?
Signing into our site with the Twitter account TweetDelete is active on will give you an option to disable it. Alternatively, you can revoke permissions for our app via Twitter's own interface.
TweetDelete deleted something I wanted to keep, is there a way I can recover it?
Afraid not. TweetDelete doesn't store copies of your tweets, only deletes them. There's no way to get them back once they've been deleted. We'd suggest using another service to grab a copy in advance if there's something in your account you might want to keep (e.g. our own handy TweetDownload service).
Why does TweetDelete ask me to authorise it to update my profile, see who I follow etc. when it doesn't need this functionality?
Twitter allows apps to request one of three types of access to your account - read, read+write or read+write+direct messages. We can't request specific permissions individually. TweetDelete needs read+write access so that we we're able to delete your tweets. We won't use our access to your account for anything other than providing our deletion service and making a post to your feed to let your friends know you activated Tweetdelete if you requested it when turning the service on.
I'm having problems getting Tweetdelete to work, is there anything I can do about it?
This site requires cookies to operate, so make sure that functionality is enabled in your browser. If you're still having problems try signing out of the site then back in or clearing the cookies stored by your browser. Occasionally Twitter refuses requests from apps (e.g. if it is overloaded), so there may from time to time be temporary problems with the service which are beyond our control.