How to Clean Up Your Old Posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

How to Clean Up Your Old Posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

The freemium TweetDelete on the web is another popular and easy-to-use option. Plug it into your Twitter account, and you can choose to delete tweets that are older than one week, two weeks, one month, two months, three months, six months, or a year. You can also remove tweets containing certain words, and have the process run automatically every few days if needed.


From what we can tell, TweetDelete is just about the best option out there, but there are alternatives. Tweet Deleter on the web is another polished freemium app that we've come across—it lets you pick out tweets from a list, and filter by date if needed, and it also has an auto-delete feature for cleaning up old tweets as you go.


The other options out there don't look quite as reliable or aren't quite as up to date as the three we've mentioned. Whichever one you pick, bear in mind that Twitter limitations mean you can only remove 3,200 tweets at a time—to get around that restriction (to erase everything at once, for example) you need to upload your entire Twitter archive to your chosen service, so only do this with apps that you absolutely trust.


Instagram


Instagram has the option of story posts, which only last 24 hours and are then automatically deleted, an idea it ripped off from the original ephemeral platform, Snapchat. If you don't want to leave a social media trail behind, using stories on Instagram (or just using Snapchat) is a good idea. Face ..

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