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How To Delete Your Twitter Account
The Reasons You Might Decide to Delete Your Twitter
In many ways, social media has changed the way that we interact with each other as a species, and perhaps none more so than Twitter. While more personal social media networks like Facebook let you connect and engage with people you know, Twitter does almost the opposite – it allows anyone, anywhere, to converse with each other, express opinions, and debate. It’s a fantastic tool because of this, but it can also be rather draining, especially if you get involved in controversial topics and online discussions about politics. Many people find Twitter hard to stay away from if they have it, and if this is the case for you, you might want to think about deleting your account.
How to Delete Twitter Account?
Think Carefully First
As with any decision, it’s worth thinking about whether you really want to delete your Twitter, rather than doing so on the spur of the moment. There are a few things you might want to consider checking before you go ahead and do it.
- Think about who you talk to on Twitter, and whether you have other contact details for them. If they’re someone you want to keep in touch with, or may want to talk to sometime in the future, it’s a good idea to get some other form of communication established before you delete your Twitter.
- Decide what benefits you get from Twitter, and whether these will be outweighed by deleting your account. If you depend on it for news, etc., remember you will have to get this elsewhere in future.
- Consider trying a self-imposed hiatus to decide whether you really want to delete it. This only works if you have the will power to stay off it, and you might decide you’d rather just make a clean break, but it is worth thinking about.
- Check you have anything you need saved to your computer; if you need Twitter to access certain photos, etc., you will want to back these up to your computer.
To Delete Twitter
Once you’ve made your decision, you will need to do a couple of things in order to delete your Twitter account. Twitter doesn’t offer a temporary delete, as many other social media sites do, but instead operate on a grace period. If you log in within 30 days of asking them to delete your account, they will reactivate it. After that, however, the account will be gone. If that’s what you want, follow these steps.
- Open Twitter in a web browser and log in. You cannot delete your Twitter account on Twitter’s app – you must do it through a browser.
- Click on your profile image and then click the ‘Settings’ button to take you to the settings page.
- Select ‘Settings and Privacy,’ and then click ‘Deactivate my account.’
- Click ‘Deactivate @username,’ and then re-enter your Twitter password. This helps Twitter confirm it is definitely you, and prevents your account being deleted as a prank or even as an accident.
- Wait for the 30 days to pass, and your account will be deleted.
Very informative post!
Thank you!
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“Reactivate” implies to me my account can be “re-activated” I want to :PERMANENTLY DELETE MY TWITTER ACCOUNT. Is this possible? Websites seem to make it so easy to create and account and make it so hard to delete one GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Hey!
https://twitter.com/settings/accounts/confirm_deactivation just go to that url, you’ll be able to delete permanently.
I thought and felt the same and then I read the article until the end and understood that you just have to wait 30 days after deactivation…Duh!?
Admin’s reply was very patient, that’s pretty cool?
My twitter account @ShivaKantaG
is not working .i want delete it.
It is suspended.
None of what Twitter provides to delete an account works. Are they purposely deceiving selected people for purposes of monetizing Twitter by holding people as members when they want out? I will try to resolve the problem by contacting Google.
No longer need it
twitter account
My account was suspended, I sent them a mail. I got a reply that it had been unsuspended but it still doesn’t work so.. I wanna delete it.
Delate my account
I want to delete my account and find it difficult
I tweeted to Donald Trump that I was sick of hearing about an attempted coup. I said arrest them or have them shot ( which is the penalty for treason) let’s move on I’m sure everyone else is tired of hearing about it to.
I am amazed my account was suspended for that
Hi my tweeter account was suspended temporarily for much less. I just called an anti Trump actress a interface. That stress have written dehumanizing poem about Melania and President Trump penis but her account is not suspended. Go figure.
Zenaida, Twitter is its name not Fairness. If you want fair play you’ll have to drop Twitter and go elsewhere.
Thanks for the helpful post! Too many scammers ruined social media for me, plus its bad for my mental health.
Very welcome and very sorry to hear that :(
Pretty sure they don’t delete when you deactivate. I deactivated and well over a month passed, just curious, I logged in, and my account was up and running just like when I left it several months earlier.
I want my Twitter account deleted please. How do I delete it out of my phone? The easiest way possible.
Twitter removed my followers and followed then made edits to account unavailable yet never said why or if violating etc. I have no idea why but I’m tired of feeling policed while others openly harass.
I want to delete my twitter account. I have tried numerous times following the instructions, but it keeps saying something went wrong. I want it gone.
Twitter is absolutely worthless
Thanks for sharing this article.
User name forget
My old twitter delete
No matter what ldo, change password etc. I can not delete account
Hey there,
You can simply freeze your account permanently, if you don’t login for 15 days, it will be removed permanently.
Twitter and It’s Over Lords Are Trash. TOO MUCH POWER
I’m guessing if your start tweeting about the truth of whats going on they will delete your account for you