deletetweets.net

What It Is

DeleteTweets is a Chrome and Edge extension for bulk-cleaning historical content on X/Twitter, including tweets, reposts, replies, and likes. It is not positioned as an enterprise social media management platform for team collaboration, but rather as a dedicated cleanup tool for individuals, creators, and brand accounts. Its key distinction is that the cleanup runs locally inside your logged-in x.com browser session, without requiring you to hand over your account to a separate web app or authorize server-side OAuth access.

Core Features and Security

Functionally, DeleteTweets can delete different content types individually or in combination, with filters for keywords, date ranges, and engagement thresholds. An exception whitelist helps protect important, pinned, or long-term valuable posts. For older content outside X’s recent timeline window, the Pro plan can import the official X data archive ZIP for processing. The tool also offers pre-deletion backups, timeline snapshots, and, in Pro, exports of deleted and backed-up records. Its security design emphasizes a local-first approach, Manifest V3, no remote code execution, and rate-limited deletion to reduce the risk of being throttled or flagged by X.

Pricing and Ease of Use

The free plan is permanently free, can delete around 50 items per day, supports basic keyword, type, and date filters, and does not require a credit card. It is suitable for testing the tool or handling small-scale cleanup. Pro costs $12/month when paid monthly, or $6/month when billed annually, and unlocks unlimited deletion workflows, archive import, backup export, and advanced filtering. Purchases are handled through Lemon Squeezy; activation requires pasting the license key from the email into the extension. Each license can be used on up to 10 devices.

Pros, Cons, and Best-Fit Users

The main advantages are strong privacy control, granular filtering, a free plan that can actually delete content, and no monthly tweet-deletion cap on Pro. The drawbacks are that it only supports Chrome/Edge, and the browser and computer must remain running during operation. Actual deletion speed is also affected by X’s 15-minute rate limits, undisclosed 24-hour limits, and recent timeline window, meaning large cleanups often need to be spread over multiple days. In addition, enterprise software capabilities such as team permissions, APIs, and formal security or compliance certifications are not disclosed.

Access from China and Alternatives

The site and extension do not specify their accessibility in mainland China, and because the core functionality depends on X/Twitter, actual use may also be affected by network access to X. Payments are processed through Lemon Squeezy, so compatibility with Chinese domestic bank cards needs to be verified by users themselves. Comparable alternatives include TweetDelete, TweetDeleter, and TweetEraser; for a small amount of content, manually deleting items directly in the official X client is also an option.