Are you tired of using Twitter? If you have decided that you no longer want to be a Twitter celebrity, if you want to create a new profile or if you have finally decided to leave cyber space to return to your 'real' form of life, follow these simple instructions and delete your Twitter account..
Steps
Step 1. Log into your Twitter profile
Step 2. Select the 'Settings' button
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Change the data relating to your e-mail address and / or your username, before deactivating the profile. In this way you will reserve the possibility to create a new Twitter profile in the future, or in the immediate future, being able to use the same username and the same e-mail address.
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Step 3. Select the item 'Deactivate my account'
This button is located at the bottom of the settings page.
Step 4. Make sure this is really what you want
If so, select the button at the bottom of the page, which says 'OK, okay, disable [your username]'. Your Twitter account is now effectively disabled.
- Before proceeding, carefully read all the instructions on the 'Farewell' page.
- Your profile will be physically deleted from the Twitter database after 30 days. Then, during all this time, you can decide to restore it or create a new one, using the same username and the same e-mail address.
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If you change your mind, you can restore your Twitter account by simply logging in within 30 days of deactivating your profile. After this time, your profile will become inaccessible forever.
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Advice
- If you want to restore your profile, remember that you have 30 days. Just log in to Twitter with your login credentials.
- It is not necessary to delete your Twitter profile to change your username, you can do it simply by accessing the settings.
Warnings
- Know that it is not possible to use the same username, the same e-mail address and the same mobile number to create a second Twitter profile. If you intend to reuse this social network in the future, before disabling the current profile, please change these settings.
- Links to your Twitter profile, present on other sites, will take a long time to be removed, those stored in search engines, such as Google, will even be impossible to remove. Unfortunately Twitter has no control over these external links, so if you wish to delete them, you will need to contact the individual sites, personally, asking for your information to be removed.
