Taking a break from Twitter? Do you want to delete or deactivate your Twitter Account? Twitter is such a wonderful application where you can catch real fun and make tweets that can trend, well, that is my positive thought about the app, why some other people have their reason they want to delete or deactivate your Twitter account, but for whichever reason, you’ll be leaving the app, I will be guiding you through.
Before I will guide you through the process let’s talk about Twitter.
Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read those that are publicly available. [Wikipedia]
Just like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other owned Meta (formerly known as Facebook) application, Twitter is owned and managed by a different organization.
Before you delete your Twitter account make sure you understand this; there’s a difference between deleting and deactivating, sometimes deactivating your account is better than deleting the whole thing
Why will you delete your account? For some reason, you want to delete your account, just know that deactivating your Twitter account is the first step to deleting your account permanently. Deactivation lasts 30 days. If you do not access your account within the 30-day deactivation period, your account is deleted and your username will no longer be associated with your account.
How to deactivate your Twitter account
Once you deactivate your account, you have 30-days to login into your account and reactivate it, during this period when your account will be deactivated, users will be unable to see you on Twitter.com. if you don’t activate it before the window closes you may end up losing your entire account.
This is the entire step:
Step 1: Click on the More icon and then click on Settings and privacy from the drop-down menu.
Step 2: From the Your Account tab, click on Deactivate your account.
Step 3: Read the account deactivation information, then click Deactivate. Step 4
Enter your password when prompted and confirm that you want to proceed by clicking the Deactivate account button.
How to delete or deactivate your Twitter Account
Note: This is actually not advisable, especially when you have built a strong social life with other users and communities on twitter, if you want to leave Twitter for good then you should have reason, and why you won’t regret loosing all your data on Twitter.
After your 30-day deactivation window, your Twitter account is permanently deleted. When you don’t log into your account during the 30-day window, it lets us know you want to permanently delete your Twitter account. Once your account is deleted, your account is no longer available in our systems. You won’t be able to reactivate your previous account and you won’t have access to any old Tweets.
Twitter wants you to know this before deactivating your account as it is important for future purposes so you won’t suffer many regrets.
Read this: How to delete TikTok Account
Top things to know before deactivating your account
Here are a few things to keep in mind if you’ve decided to deactivate or delete your Twitter account:
- Deleting your Twitter account won’t delete your information from search engines like Google or Bing because Twitter doesn’t control those sites. There are steps you can take if you contact the search engine.
- When you deactivate your Twitter account, mentions of your account’s username in other’s Tweets will still exist. However it will no longer link to your profile as your profile will no longer be available.
- You don’t have to delete your account to change the username or email associated with your Twitter account. Go to Account information to update that anytime.
- Logging into your account within the 30-day deactivation window easily restores your account.
- If you want to download your Twitter data, you’ll need to request it before you deactivate your account. Deactivating your account does not remove data from Twitter systems.
- Twitter may retain some information on your deactivated account to ensure the safety and security of its platform and people using Twitter.
If you have deactivated your account, and it’s been less than 30 days, follow the steps below to reactivate your account.
How to reactivate your Twitter account
See how you can reactivate your account within 30days of the deletion request.
- Visit twitter.com/login via twitter.com, or open your Twitter for iOS or Android app.
- Enter your login credentials.
- Before you sign in, you’ll see a notice asking
real fun and make tweets that can trend, well, that is my positive thought about the app, why do some other people have their reason they want to delete or deactivate your Twitter account, but for whichever reason, you’ll be leaving the app, I will be guiding you through.
Before I will guide you through the process let’s talk about Twitter.
- you to confirm if you want to reactivate your account.
- If you choose to reactivate, you’ll be redirected to your Home timeline. Please note that Tweets, followers, likes, etc., may take a while to fully restore.
Some FAQS you need to know
When can I use the email address/username from my deactivated account?
The username and email address on a deactivated account is available for use on another account 30 days after the account was deactivated. Within those 30 days, the information remains tied to the deactivated account to allow for reactivation.
Does deactivating Twitter also delete my direct messages?
During the 30-day deactivation period, your direct messages won’t be deleted. When the deactivation period ends and your account is deleted, direct messages you’ve sent will also be deleted.
Wrapping things up
You have successfully deleted your account, you can only access it before 30 days runs out. We also have some tutorials on how you can delete your Snapchat, Instagram, and Tiktok accounts.