How to Delete Tweets From 2023 Only
How to delete your tweets from only 2023, keeping everything else intact (which will use date filters as well as bulk deletion tools)
10 Tweets From an Individual Year – Why To Remove
For all the reasons above, you may want to focus your tweets from only one year. Or were you actually changing jobs in 2023 and posting opinions related to that employer? Potentially they were from a time when you very active during a personal crisis and the posts no longer represent you. Say a recruiter is perusing your timeline and you need that year to look pristine. You can delete out an entire year without scarring the rest of your history, meaning you get to keep the tweets that still serve you whilst removing those that don't.
There is no filter in X saying delete all from 2023 The platform provides no native bulk delete functionality whatsoever, let alone by year. Which means you will need either an manual search or a 3rd Party tool that can apply a date range. The option that you go with depends on how many tweets do you posted this year. If you posted couple of dozens, manual deletion is sufficient. If you posted hundreds or thousands, only a rate-limit-respecting tool will realistically work with the X-rate limits.
How X's Date Filters Shoo-away Work for You
X has an advanced search that allows you to search by date range. For the web version, use to search bar then click on the three dots or the filter icon and select advanced search. There, you can enter a start and end date, and then be presented with every tweet you made within that period. The search syntax also can be used without Twitter advanced search: from:yourhandle since:2023-01-01 until:2024-01-01 This fetches your every public Tweet for the entire calendar year of 2023, page by page.
X only displays the latest results in order, but paginates slowly. For anyone with more than a few hundred tweets that year -- scrolling back to the suppressed 2023 messages would require dozens of manual loads per page. Even then, not all tweets make it to X's search index. That means some older mid-2023 posts may not show up. Date filter helps in brief to preview how many tweets you will need to deal with but this method of deletion is not 100% complete or actually effective by itself.
How to Permanently Delete a Year’s Worth of Tweets Manually
If you have less than 200 tweets from 2023, manual deletion does the trick. Go to your profile page and scroll all the way back till you have January 2023, then delete them one by one Select each post, click on the three-dot menu and select delete. X prompts each deletion for your confirmation. It takes approximately 10 seconds per tweet to do this process, so we would do two hundred and it would take thirty minutes. You can do this over the course of a couple of days in short sessions.
The thing with manually deleting it, is that X does not save your scroll position reliably. When you refresh the page it takes you all the way back up and in order to get where you left off, you have to scroll down again. The mobile app does this even worse than the web version. And manual deletion also misses retweets and replies that don't show up in your primary timeline view. And should you want those out, too, you must use X's data export or a tool able to parsing your full archive. For a lot of people with average volume, manual deletion gets the job done but is tedious and posts are easily lost.
This is a batch deletion Tool to delete your tweets of a particular year.
Bulk deletion tools can be connected directly to X via its API and able to perform bulk actions (deleting posts, locking old ones, etc.) on the basis of date ranges. You then give the tool or service access using X's authentication system, which is basically what you use to sign into any third-party application on X. After getting permission, it reads your timeline and gives you the option to select a start date as well as an end date. You specify the dates it should delete all tweets from (January 1 2023 through to December 31 2023) and then it deletes them in groups.
You have the X API rate limits of fifty requests per user account every fifteen minutes. Delete: Each delete is counted as one request. This means that a tool can delete approximately 200 tweets in one hour, or around 5k tweets in a whole day if the bot runs without fail! If your account only has a few hundred to few thousand tweets across a year, that phase is completed in the matter of hours. Thesetool waits and retries automatically. There is no need to keep your browser open or your computer on.
2023 Retweets & Replies What About
Note that retweets and replied also make the same orignal text which X considers a separate post is deleted. If you bulk delete by range and the tool normally will delete everything it finds from that date (including retweets/replies). If you wish to retain a few of them, you should have a look at the list prior to deleting. Most tools have a preview or the option to exclude posts. You may first delete all of your 2023 retweets, then original tweets and vice versa.
Replies are messier because they come up in someone else's conversations. When a reply is deleted, it removes that contribution from the original thread. And the text of the reply itself vanishes from X, although the username line might still remain empty—and as a kind of a placeholder? Your comment will still exist if you reply to a popular thread and delete yours, because others can quote it. No way to prevent that from happening. For unimportant harmful replies the deletion is clean. For replies that really got people talking, then Removing them could invite more attention than keeping them.
What You Cannot Undo After Deleting a Year
If a tweet is deleted that was published in 2023, it disappears from X. Your text, media and engagement data will be wiped from your profile and the search results. It is not discoverable by search or going to your timeline at all. That said, X's own internal systems might still hold on to the data for law enforcement and reporting purposes and a third-party could be like Internet Archive and have a cache of that tweet from when it was crawled prior you deleting it. Chats; messages — data you received to your mail from some other user that will live even if you delete it.
The most irretrievable of losses is the loss of your archive. Deleting tweets without first downloading your X archive means losing the original text and metadata forever. Before proceeding with mass deletions, make sure to download your archive. The archive contains all the tweets you've ever tweeted (including those by 2023) in a human-readable format. After you make your own copy, now you can delete freely since the ownership of that record is still yours privately. Deleted without archive means you yourself are erasing your past, with no backup.