There are plenty of reasons why people might want to clean-up their old retweets and tweets. If you’re a college graduate and looking for a new job, you might want to erase the trace of your old, embarrassing tweets and retweets from your new employer. If you’re a Twitter addict, you might have posted a lot of personal information earlier that you may want to delete to protect your privacy and confidentiality. There are so many other reasons, and legitimate ones. Unfortunately, Twitter doesn’t have an in-house functionality to automatically erase older tweets/ retweets for you.

If you’ve only a handful of tweets/ retweets, it is possible to manually locate and delete them one by one. You can employ Twitter’s powerful Search functionality to automatically find right tweets for you using different patterns. If you’ve several thousand tweets/ retweets, it is nearly impossible to delete them one by one. Easy Tweet Deleter is the most safest and spam-free approach to accomplish this task. Read on…

1. Use Different Search Queries To Manually Find & Delete Older Tweets/ Retweets

Twitter allows you to load specific tweets based on various search criteria- such as tweets containing a specific keyword, tweets posted in a time duration, tweets replying and mentioning an individual, tweets published in a specific language. Moreover, you can search for your retweets (RTs) by a keyword/ text.

How To Use Twitter Search?

1. Open your Twitter Profile from your computer.

2. Locate the Search box on the upper right corner.

3. Type your search query.

I. Search For Your Retweets (RTs) By Keyword

Use the following syntax to search your Twitter timeline for only retweets containing a word/ letter.

from:<your account id> filter:nativeretweets [<search text>]

The following example will search for all retweets (RTs) containing the word crocodile.

from:wecatlovers filter:nativeretweets [crocodile]

II. Search Your Tweets By Keyword

You can use the following syntax to search for specific tweets by a keyword or specific text pattern.

<search text> from:<your account id>

To load all of your tweets that contain a specific keyword such as cat, use the following search query. This does NOT load any Retweets (RTs).

cat from:wecatlovers

This will load up all relevant results and allow you to manually delete the tweets.

II. Search Tweets By Time Duration

You can employ Twitter Search to find tweets that you posted in a specific time period.

Syntax:

from:<your account id> since:<beginning date yyyy-mm-dd> until:<end date yyyy-mm-dd>

In the following example, we’ll search for tweets starting from 1st January, 2019 until 30th January, 2019.

from:wecatlovers since:2019-01-01 until:2019-01-30

III. Search Your Replies To An Individual

If you need to delete your replies sent to a specific individual on Twitter, use the following search filter:

to:<other account name> from:<your account id>

Example: In this example, we’ll search for only those replies you sent to an account named RealGrumpyCat.

to:RealGrumpyCat from:wecatlovers

IV. Search Your Tweets Mentioning/ Tagging An Individual

If you’ve tagged other individuals on Twitter, you can search for such tweets using the following search query:

(<other account>) from:<your account id>

For example:

(simonscat) from:wecatlovers

V. Search Your Tweets By Language

You can search for your tweets published in a specific language. Here’s the syntax:

lang:<your language code> from:<your account id>

In this example, we will load all tweets published in French:

lang:fr from:wecatlovers

Please refer this Twitter documentation.for a brief list of some major world language codes. Please note that this is not a complete list. If your language code is not mentioned, please Google it. For example: portuguese language code

VI. Method # 2: Automatically Delete All Tweets/ Retweets At Once Using Easy Tweet Deleter

Easy Tweet Deleter is the only easiest, safest and spam-free approach to delete all tweets at once. It has a slick and efficient user-interface with robust features specially designed keeping in mind the need of non-tech savvy users. The browser-based tweet deleting platform – ETD, will never ask you for password. However, it requires a one-time permission to access and manage tweets/ RTs on your behalf. You can, at any time, revoke this permission to disallow integration with the ETD app.

Here are some of its key features:

Search and locate older tweets with a keyword
Filter and narrow down your search results with date/ duration criteria tool
Quickly delete a large chunk of unwanted tweets without user intervention
Get rid of tweets, retweets (RTs) and replies
Use the checkboxes to select custom tweets of your choice
Delete media files, pictures, links to third-party websites and other data published from your Twitter account

Step # 1: Sign-Up On Easy Tweet Deleter

1. Go to the Easy Tweet Deleter website and click on the large button Sign Up With Twitter.

2. Twitter will prompt you to authorize ETD app to access your tweets. Click on the Authorize App button.

Step # 2: Download Your Twitter Archive

1. Once you’re done authorizing ETD access to your account, click on the More icon at bottom left.

2. Select Settings and Privacy.

3. Click the Account tab, followed by Your Twitter Data.

4. Twitter will prompt you to enter your password for identification. After entering your password, click Confirm.

5. Click on Request Archive next to Twitter.

6. Twitter will display a notification that your Archive request is being processed. This may take from several minutes to several hours depending on the size of your Twitter data.

7. Once your Archive is ready-to-download, you will receive an email on your registered email account containing a download link. Alternatively, you can download your Twitter Archive from the Settings page as well.

Step # 3: Upload Your Twitter Archive On ETD

1. Once you’ve downloaded your Archive, go to your Easy Tweet Deleter Dashboard. If you’re not redirected to the Dashboard automatically, click the Dashboard link on the upper right corner.

2. Click on Go to Archives Page to upload your Archive.

3. Click on Browse, and then upload your archive.

4. A success message will appear after completion of the file upload.

5. Go to the Dashboard again and you would be able to see all of your tweets.

I. Delete All Tweets/ Retweets At Once With A Single Click

You can delete all tweets at once with a single click as shown under:

1. Use the topmost checkbox in the Tweets column.

2. Click on the Delete All button.

II. Select & Delete Custom Tweets/ RTs

You can delete tweets of your choice by using the checkboxes in front of each tweet, and then clicking on the Delete All button.

III. Find & Delete Tweets/ RTs By Keyword

Use the Filter options on the left panel to load tweets containing a keyword of your choice.

1. Type the text you want to search for in the Text box on the left-hand side panel.

2. Specify how many tweets you want to display per page (10/ 25/ 100).

3. Select the RT option under Tweet Type to display only Retweets. Leave the default option All unchanged to see all tweets, RTs and other media content.

4. Click on the Apply Filter.

5. Use the topmost checkbox to select all tweets, and then click on Delete All.

IV. Search Tweets/ Retweets By Duration

1. Specify a From Date and To Date in the Search Filter on the left.

2. Use the Tweet Type drop-down box to specify which tweets you want to appear.

3. Click on the Apply Filter button.

4. Use the topmost checkbox to mark all tweets selected, and then delete them using Delete All button.

Vikas

Hello, My name is Vikas. I am a technology enthusiast and have an experience of over 6 years in providing technical support in the form of contributing in technology forums, websites, and blogs. I am working with Sorcim Technologies and writing technical content for the company. You can contact me about the content I wrote. Please send an email to the support team (use the support form) and mention my name in the subject, and ask anything related to the content I wrote.