How to delete one, several or all of your tweets?

Last updated on 12 May 2026

This is a question you have already asked yourself or could ask yourself at some point. If deleting or deleting a tweet does not cause too many problems, the case can quickly get tough when it comes to deleting a whole series of tweets or even all the tweets from one’s account. Here are some tools and services that will help you delete tweets.

The tweets you post on your timeline are traces of its digital identity which remain engraved in the cloud. Checking and possibly correcting your tweet history is good advice for yourself and your students. It is even advisable to delete the timeline systematically and regularly after a certain period of time.

Tweetdelete.

TweetDelete is one of the most well-known and used tools. It is completely free and allows you to set up a kind of routine that will automatically erase your old tweets spent a period of time that you will be able to define. Several choices are possible: one week, two, one month, three months or an entire year. Once connected to the service with your Twitter credentials, this is the only element to configure. TweetDelete.

TweetDeleter.

TweetDeleter respond to more demanding needs with a range of options that will allow you to easily sort and search for tweets you want to delete. After logging in via your credentials, TweetDeleter will show you the full list of all your tweets. All you have to do is tick the ones you want to delete and then one click delete them forever. TweetDeleter offers a powerful and fast search engine to bring out from the mass of your tweets the one you want to erase. Search by keyword or hashtag. TweetDeleter also makes it possible to automate the deletion of old tweets: either after a certain period of time or by specifying the maximum number of tweets to be kept permanently on the account. TweetDeleter offers a limited basic version, but free. To have access to all the options, you will have to go through a subscription of a few euros per month. TweetDeleter.

TweetEraser.

TweetEraser has similar functions. The tool allows powerful filtering and many options to remove all slag from your posts on the social network.
In the interesting little options offered by TweetEraser, you can also delete favorites, search the full history of your account and not just the last 3200 posts. The tool offers a limited free version and an automatically non-renewable paid subscription of around €5 to lift all limits. TweetEraser.

 

Be careful with these tools. Beware of inadvertent manipulations. It is very easy to delete thousands of tweets with one click and it is important to think before doing so, there is no reversal possible.

As we are never too careful, I advise you to save all your tweets before anything else. Go to your Twitter account settings > Account > Request archive.

 

Here you have everything you need for a small regular cleaning of your account or accounts on Twitter.