Mass Delete Twitter/X DMs
Your DMs are the most private part of your Twitter/X account, and one of the easiest to forget about. Years of late-night arguments, numbers and addresses you handed out, plans that fizzled, things you would never say out loud in public. Redact clears them out in bulk, whole conversations or just the messages that matter, straight from your own inbox. Pick a date or a name, preview the haul, then wipe it.
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Why wipe your old DMs?
Your DMs remember things you don't
Old conversations can leave your inbox full of personal details and messages you no longer need. Choose which messages to remove from your view. Other participants keep their copies.
Personal details you typed mid-conversation
The address you sent a friend mid-move, the number you dropped in a group chat, the login code a service texted you and you never deleted. Those details sit in your inbox until you clear them.
Arguments and overshares you've moved past
The back-and-forth you would pay real money to un-send is still there, frozen exactly as you left it. Bulk deletion clears it in one pass instead of scrolling for it message by message.
Choose what remains in your inbox
Remove conversations you no longer want in your inbox view. This does not erase the other person's copy or copies saved elsewhere.
How Twitter/X DM deletion works
Remove messages from your view
Redact requests removal of the messages or conversations you select from your view on X. Choose the conversations and filters, preview the matches, then confirm the cleanup.
- Your view changes. Selected messages are removed from your inbox view.
- Recipients keep their copies. This does not remove messages from anyone else’s inbox or erase copies saved elsewhere.
- Your inbox cleared
- Less inbox history
- Recipient keeps theirs
Scope it however you like
Clear every conversation, or target specific chats
Pick every conversation in the DM selector and Redact sweeps your whole inbox. Or select a few and stack the filters to carve out an exact slice. The date range and the allowlist narrow a run that deletes individual messages, so keep that scope if you want them applied. The cleanups people reach for most:
By date range
Set a start and an end to clear an old stretch, or leave it wide open to wipe your entire DM history in one pass. The range applies to individual messages, not to a whole conversation you remove in one go.
Whole conversations or single messages
Remove an entire conversation in one go, or delete only the individual messages inside it. Removing a whole conversation clears every message in it, so the date range and the allowlist do not narrow it.
With the offensive-content classifier
Run Redact's on-device classifier over your messages to flag the ones most likely to read as offensive.
By recipient, with an allowlist
Add an account to the allowlist and Redact never deletes the messages that account sent you. The allowlist applies while Redact deletes individual messages, so use that scope for the chats you want to protect.
Easy or Advanced mode
Nuke everything, or delete with precision
There are two ways to run the DM remover, depending on how much you care about the details. Preview every match before a single message is removed: read the results, pull anything you want to keep, then commit.
Easy mode
Pick your conversations, then set a start and an end date, or leave the window wide open, and Redact clears everything inside it. This is the nuclear option, and nothing remains in the conversations you selected when it finishes.
Advanced mode
Pick the exact conversations from the DM selector, then choose whether to remove whole conversations or only the individual messages inside them. On individual messages you can also set a date range and add accounts to the allowlist. Removing a whole conversation clears everything in it, so neither filter applies there.
Archive import is for public content
Importing your Twitter/X archive covers tweets, retweets, replies, quotes, and likes. Direct messages are deleted straight from your inbox, not from the archive file.
Your messages never touch our servers
This matters more for DMs than for anything else. Redact talks straight to Twitter/X from your computer or phone, reads only what it needs to find the messages, and deletes them on the spot. Your private conversations and your login never pass through a Redact server, and the moment you are done you can cut off the access entirely.
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Frequently asked questions
No. Twitter/X only lets you clear your own copy of a message, so the person you were talking to keeps theirs. Redact removes everything on your side: your account, your history, your inbox. The half you do not control stays with them.
Either. Select every conversation in the DM selector for a full sweep of your inbox, or tick a single one. Both modes let you scope the run with a date range, and Advanced mode adds the choice between deleting whole conversations and deleting only the individual messages inside them. The date range applies to individual messages, because removing a whole conversation clears every message in it.
Yes, up to a point. Add an account to the allowlist and Redact never deletes the messages that account sent you, though the messages you sent in that chat still count as your content and go. Leave the chat out of the DM selector to keep all of it. The allowlist applies while Redact deletes individual messages, not when you remove a whole conversation.
In Easy mode you pick conversations from the DM selector and set a date range. Advanced mode adds a choice between deleting whole conversations or only the individual messages inside them, plus an allowlist of accounts whose messages are never touched. The date range and the allowlist apply to individual messages, because removing a whole conversation clears every message in it.
No. Redact clears DMs straight from your inbox and paces itself inside Twitter/X's rate limits, so a deep backlog just takes longer rather than failing. Archive import is a separate tool for tweets, retweets, replies, quotes, and likes, and it does not cover direct messages.
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Mass Delete Tweets by Date Range
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Mass Delete Tweets by Hashtag
Bulk delete tweets by hashtag, one tag or many, with a preserve list for the tagged tweets you keep.
Mass Delete Tweets by Keyword
Bulk delete tweets by keyword or phrase, with preserve filters and a built-in offensive-content classifier.
Mass Delete Replies on Twitter/X
Bulk delete the replies you've left under other people's tweets, by date, keyword, or engagement. Your tweets stay untouched.
Mass Delete Retweets on Twitter/X
Un-retweet your whole history in one pass, or filter by date, keyword, or hashtag first. Your own tweets and the originals stay untouched.
Filter Twitter/X Posts by Content Type and Media
Pick exactly which content types to remove, then narrow by media attribute. Delete only retweets, clear every quote tweet, or wipe just your video posts.
Delete Your Grok Chat History
Wipe your Grok chat history in one pass, or search and pick the conversations that go. Starred chats and anything you preserve stay untouched.
Remove Twitter/X Bookmarks
Remove saved posts from your bookmarks in bulk, by keyword or post date, and keep any that mention words you pick.
Mass Delete Twitter/X Likes
Bulk unlike years of Twitter/X likes, all of them or filtered by date, keyword, hashtag, or engagement. Free to start.
Mass Unblock and Unmute Twitter/X Accounts
Bulk unblock and unmute Twitter/X accounts in one pass. Clear your whole block list and mute list, or just named handles, with a preserve list for the rest.
Mass Unfollow Twitter/X Accounts
Bulk unfollow the accounts you follow on Twitter/X, all at once or filtered by account type and follower count, with a preserve list for the handles you keep.
Bulk Delete via Twitter/X Data Export
Import your Twitter/X archive .zip into the desktop app to find tweets and likes without paging through your live timeline.
Bulk Delete Twitter/X Lists
Bulk delete the Twitter/X Lists you own, all at once or filtered by title, description, or member count. Deleting a list never unfollows anyone.
Delete Your Entire Twitter/X History
Wipe your whole Twitter/X account in one sweep, every content type at once, with a local archive saved to your computer first.