Hey, what if we were to tell you that now there’s a service that allows you to delete most of your tweets from Twitter? Great news, eh?

TweetDelete is useful for people who want to reduce the amount of old data in their Twitter account or those who want to limit the amount of data about themselves they expose Online. It is an automated service & runs on your account every few days. Once you’ve activated TweetDelete, it will check your account periodically for new tweets that have become older than the age you specified and it will delete them for you. You are free to disable TweetDelete at any time.

For technical reasons TweetDelete can only work within the latest 3,200 tweets on your account. Tweets older than this are not easily accessible via Twitter’s interface & since TweetDelete cannot find them, those beyond that cannot be deleted. An example: if your account originally had 15,000 tweets & you delete 3,200 of them, you’ll still have 11,800 left. These old tweets don’t show up on Twitter’s Site though, claims TweetDelete, simply because that’s how Twitter works.Once you’ve activated TweetDelete, provided you make less than 3,200 posts per the deletion timeframe you’ve selected, all future posts should be deleted as you’d expect.

Twitter allows apps to request 1 of 3 types of access to your account – read, read+write or read+write+direct messages. Once you have used the free TweetDelete & do not want it anymore, you may revoke all permissions granted to it. Once that’s done, it’s impossible for these guys to delete your tweets.

But remember, all deletion is final. Once you have ordered TweetDelete to do its job, deleted tweets cannot be recovered. TweetDelete doesn’t store copies of your tweets, it only deletes them. There’s no way to get them back once they’ve been deleted.

This new service is part of the UK-based MEMSET network of dedicated servers.

Image Credit: TweetDelete

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