#Tweet archive archive#

Simply connect your Twitter account to your deletion mechanism of choice and follow its instructions. Now that you have your archive, it’s time to get down to business. If you don’t get it, revisit our button friend and click again for another email.

#Tweet archive archive#

Twitter will warn you that this process can take a little bit of time, but when your archive is done, it’ll be emailed to the account associated with your Twitter. But full deleters may need to go through with it.

If you’re doing a light delete, this is just for posterity, so you can skip it. Whichever path you choose, your first step should be to request your Twitter archive. And if you have fewer than 3,200 tweets in total, we admire your restraint. Depending on your number of tweets, this might be feasible, if arduous. There’s one more option: Use a delete lite method like Tweet Delete over and over again, each time sloughing off the 3,200 most recent tweets on your account. Delete pro tools generally get around this limitation by asking you to upload an archive of your tweets-which gives them a full map instead of the limited one they’d get from Twitter's API-thereby bypassing Twitter’s API limitations. You might go through and manually delete them yourself, but that could take a pretty long time, since they’re out of range for delete lite apps. You can still find these in your feed (and so can other people). Twitter gives applications (like these tweet-deletion programs) access to only your most recent tweets, while the rest are inaccessible. The reason for the two tiers comes down to a limitation in Twitter’s Application Programming Interface (API).