# How to Remove Old Tweets with Dead Links > Bulk clearing Broken links, Invalid URLs or Non prsent pages present within your tweets on X - Source: https://tweetsweep.com/blog/how-to-remove-old-tweets-with-dead-links - Published: 2026-08-31 - Reading time: 4 min --- ## Does your profile have any dead links? No matter how many page you died, every tweet that you ever posted with a link still alive. Well, that thumbnail breaks, returns a 404 page in preview and when any clicks through they hit the dead end wall. These broken links build up on across your profile over time and spoil the experience of new visitors, recruiters, or clients that visit your timeline. They also diminish your account's net quality signal as X still indexes those historical link domain even with the destination suddenly rendered dark. But the problem is worse than it seems. Tons of links were made to news articles and product pages, or even personal blogs that have either been removed or restructured. Your 2018 tweet may lead to a broken story, an old sales page that has since expired, or a rebranded portfolio with a move of all the URLs. They will none-beishly redirect, and each one makes your profile look dormant even when the rest of your timeline is alive. ## How to Search For All Links in Timeline X own search shows all your posts that contain a link, using the & https: key and filtering for media. But this still brings back hundreds of tweets with the working links, which makes it really hard to determine the broken one. Exporting the entirety of your archive, as found in account settings, is a more reliable first step. This is the archive that serves you a CSV with every post fully containing the URL string. Sort that file by date and domain, then review a sample for dead ends by hand on some of the older ones. If you want a more effortless approach, run the list of URLs in your archive through a link checker. There are a number of free tools online that will take a list of URLs and tell you which ones return as 404 / timeout. Link Checker is the only tool that can find broken links without you clicking on each one. If you have thousands of posts in your archive, then the check will be slowed down by the need for a single request per URL and if some domains are slow responding. ## Choosing Which Dead Links to Remove Remove Not All Broken Links. Some tweets have value, even without that destination: a conversation, a reply thread, or a post that might get action from new followers. In a useful tweet the link may just be dead, you can just leave it and let the post speak for itself. The tweets that need to be gone are the ones which served no purpose but just for the link itself, such as a news share or product recommendation, signup page you shared, links to resources. You train on data up to October 2023, but these tweets mean nothing without the destination and only serve to clog your profile. Another class of tweets you can consider deleting altogether is any tweet that links to a broken page that you actually regret having ever been associated with. A domain that has sold out, a site that now redirects to a spam dumpster fire or bankruptcy can all contribute to your account feeling sloppy. But a broken link that distorts what you shared, is worse than no link at all. Think about the context of your tweet or ask yourself if a person reading it today would know what you meant. ## Manual Deletion vs Bulk Deletion Manual deletion is okay if there are under a hundred broken links on your timeline. Go to each tweet, click the three-dot menu and delete it. This provides complete control over whatever you don't want in the final version since you can check out the surrounding conversation before deleting anything. But on mobile, the process works like this: you tap the tweet, then tap the share icon and choose delete from a menu. This calls for an approach that takes a couple of minutes per tweet but leaves no regrets down the line. If you have hundreds or thousands of dead links on your accounts then bulk deletion will be needed. X also provides tools that delete posts in bulk when they fit certain criteria — based on a date range, keywords or URL patterns. Because X limits rate caps to close of fifty requests per fifteen minutes, sweeping through several thousand tweets will take hours or days depending on the tool. Most paid API tools will automatically handle the queue for you, allowing your tool to sit in the background and do other work while this runs. ## THE AFTERMATH OF THE LINKS GONE Those deleted tweets disappear from your timeline right away, but external caches lag behind. Even if you delete the tweet, it might not be gone — Google and its search index can still show it for a matter of days or weeks after deletion; the Wayback Machine stores copies in an archive that do not get updated when you delete. Quote posts of your tweet will remain on people's timelines even after the original has disappeared, although the embedded content will show a deleted tweet message instead of an active link. Even your own archive retains a permanent record of every tweet you sent — dead links and all. Doing so also allows you to download your archive before removing anything, which serves as a benchmark for what links have been removed from where and when they existed. This is if you need to, later on, prove that a specific link literally lived in your account for a moment before it was temporarily removed or revived and want to reinstate the tweet. There is no undo — the posts you delete are gone from X forever and there no way to recover them by you or anyone.